← Back to Home
Despair
“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.
Trailers & Videos
Related Topics & Tags
#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 nazism
#victimhood
Top Billed 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
Recommended Movies & Series
Alone in Berlin
Valkyrie
FX's A Christmas Carol
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Zone of Interest
Topaz
Discussion & Reviews