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  1. A refugee from Soviet Russia, with a Baltic German father and a wealthy Jewish mother, he has inherited a business making chocolates. His Jewish wife Lydia, voluptuous but not intelligent, has an over-close relationship with her bachelor cousin, a painter called Ardalion.

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0077421Despair (1978) - IMDb

    Sep 20, 1978 · 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.

  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt5238824Despair (2017) - IMDb

    Apr 1, 2017 · Despair: Directed by Hank Orion. With Brian Dives, Ryan O'Grady, Michael Wouters, Jagoda Kamov. After Jack and Lucy rescue a woman from freezing cold in the middle of Scottish mountains, they come to realize that the woman is not who she says she is and that she has not the best intentions.

  4. Darkly perverse and intellectually challenging, the 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film Despair is a remarkable collision of creative talent. Directed by avant garde German wunderkid Fassbinder, the film was adapted by playwright Tom Stoppard from a novel by Vladimir Nabokov and stars the equally risk-embracing Dirk Bogarde ( Death in Venice ...

  5. Feb 17, 2019 · Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It...

  6. 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 ...

  7. A hysterical comedy. 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 ...