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Despair (1978)

Despair (1978)

Drama Thriller

A hysterical comedy

Release Date: 1978, September 15
Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Countries: Germany
Production: Bavaria Studios
Cast: Osman Ragheb, Gottfried John, Bernhard Wicki, Andréa Ferréol, Ingrid Caven, Dirk Bogarde, Hark Bohm, Gitty Djamal, Klaus Löwitsch, Alexander Allerson, Harry Baer, Isolde Barth

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 1930s painter identity madness mental illness husband wife relationship antisemitism performative self image nazism paranoia alienation berlin, germany identity crisis chocolate businessman attempt to escape doppelgänger rise of nazism film within a film rise of fascism perfect murder assumed identity murder plot insurance policy double dissociation vagrant republic of weimar russian emigre jewish ancestry jewish wife victimhood