Despair
Drama
Thriller
A hysterical comedy
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.
1978-09-15
en
Cast
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Dirk Bogarde as Hermann Hermann
Andréa Ferréol as Lydia Hermann
Klaus Löwitsch as Felix Weber
Volker Spengler as Ardalion
Bernhard Wicki as Orlovius
Armin Meier as Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter Kern as Müller
Adrian Hoven as Inspector Schelling
Hark Bohm as Doctor
Roger Fritz as Inspector Braun
Gottfried John as Perebrodov
Y Sa Lo as Elsie
Lilo Pempeit as Mrs. Schmidt
Ingrid Caven as Hotel Manager
Isolde Barth as 2nd Landlady
Gitty Djamal as Woman in Pension
Harry Baer as Innkeeper