Despair

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 fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenplay

Tom Stoppard

Producer

Peter Märthesheimer

Original Music Composer

Peer Raben

Director of Photography

Michael Ballhaus