Despair 1978

Synopsis

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

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Cast

• Dirk Bogarde Hermann Hermann
• Andréa Ferréol Lydia Hermann
• Klaus Löwitsch Felix Weber
• Volker Spengler Ardalion
• Bernhard Wicki Orlovius
• Armin Meier Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
• Peter Kern Müller
• Adrian Hoven Inspector Schelling
• Alexander Allerson Mayer
• Hark Bohm Doctor

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