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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.
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.
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- Drama, History
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1978-09-20
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 ...
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Dirk Bogarde
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- 117 min
Apr 17, 2021 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first English language film Despair (1978) is a fascinating entry in his filmography: while it is set in Germany, it is his first film in English, with iconic English actor Dirk Bogarde in the lead.
- Martyn Bamber
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 ...
In "Despair", Bogarde sleeps in a grimy apartment up in the Swiss mountains, believing himself to be a movie actor and life to be an elaborate movie production. Hermann's dislocation and disassociation may be complete, but despair never leaves him. 6/10 - See 1962's "Lolita".
