- HD 1080
- Runtime: 117m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Germany
- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki
- keywords: berlin, germany, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, chocolate, republic of weimar, doppelgänger, nazism, russian emigre, 1930s
- Production_studio: Bavaria Studios
- Slogan: A hysterical comedy
- The Despair is featured in the top rankings of 1978
- #53 in Top Drama Movies of 1978
- #12 in Top Thriller Movies of 1978
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.