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Despair
Drama • Thriller
64%
Unrated
10/5/19781h 57mPremiere Release (US)
~ A hysterical comedy ~
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.
Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$2,600,000.00
Revenue:
$0.00
Key words:
- berlin, germany
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- businessman
- chocolate
- identity
- paranoia
- identity crisis
- attempt to escape
- painter
- republic of weimar
- alienation
- antisemitism
- mental illness
- madness
- assumed identity
- doppelgänger
- insurance policy
- double
- vagrant
- nazism
- russian emigre
- murder plot
- 1930s
- perfect murder
- self image
- film within a film
- performative
- dissociation
- jewish ancestry
- jewish wife
- rise of fascism
- rise of nazism
- victimhood
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