Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht)
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Composer
Peer Raben
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
Edition 1979
119'
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1978
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Historical, Drama
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Dialogue:
English
In early-1930s Berlin during the Weimar Republic and the Nazis' rise to power, elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier Hermann Hermann leads a petite-bourgeois life with his voluptuous, frivolous wife Lydia. Troubled about his Jewish roots, Hermann convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger in the person of unemployed vagabond Felix, going as far as to hatch a murderous plan, intent on trading his very existence for an entirely new one. Now, Hermann's desire for transcendence is gnawing at him. Will he get over the full-blown mental breakdown and the profound despair?
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Credits
Directors
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Composers
Peer Raben
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
Scenario
Tom Stoppard
Director of Photography
Michael Ballhaus
Editors
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Juliane Lorenz
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
France, West Germany
Screenplay based on
"Despair" (Vladimir Nabokov)
Year
1978