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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
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- 117 min
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
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 ...
Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic.
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".
