Despair
A hysterical comedy
Film19781h 57m
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- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1978-09-20
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
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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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