Despair
September 20, 1978
117 minutes
6.5
DramaThriller

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.

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Cast
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])