
Despair
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.
Despair
September 20, 1978
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Cast (21)

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

Roger Fritz
Inspector Braun

Gottfried John
Perebrodov

Y Sa Lo
Elsie

Lilo Pempeit
Mrs. Schmidt

Ingrid Caven
Hotel Manager

Voli Geiler
1st Landlady

Isolde Barth
2nd Landlady

Gitty Djamal
Woman in Pension

Harry Baer
Innkeeper

Osman Ragheb
Post Office Clerck

Hans Zander
Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]
Crew (41)
Directing

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director

Stefan Zürcher
Assistant Director

Ronald M. Scheich
Assistant Director

Elke Vogt
Script Supervisor

Harry Baer
Assistant Director
Writing

Tom Stoppard
Screenplay

Vladimir Nabokov
Novel
Production

Peter Märthesheimer
Producer

Don French
Unit Manager

Dieter Minx
Production Supervisor

Lutz Winter
Unit Manager

Wulf Ghastaus
Unit Manager

Lutz Hengst
Production Executive

Rudolf Geiger
Unit Manager

Marcel Höhn
Unit Manager
Sound

Peer Raben
Original Music Composer

James Willis
Sound Mixer

John Stevenson
Boom Operator

Milan Bor
Sound Mixer

Milan Bor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art

Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design

Herbert Strabel
Art Direction

Ulrich Wendt
Property Master

Klaus Meyenberg
Property Master

Jochen Schumacher
Set Decoration

Lothar Tropp
Property Master

Jochen Schumacher
Art Direction
Camera

Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography

Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Still Photographer
Costume & Make-Up

Georg Kuhn
Wardrobe Supervisor

Any Nöbauer
Makeup Artist

Karin Geuer
Wardrobe Supervisor

Dagmar Schauberger
Costume Designer

Max Dietl
Costume Designer

Peter Knöpfle
Makeup Artist