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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
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.
- (2.9K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Hank Orion
- 2017-04-01
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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
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 ...
Despair is a film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern. Year: 1978. Original title: Despair. Synopsis: Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad.
