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Despair

19 May 1978
119 min
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Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.

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Armin Meier

Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

Dirk Bogarde

Hermann Hermann

Andréa Ferréol

Lydia Hermann

Gottfried John

Perebrodov

Hark Bohm

Doktor

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Klaus Löwitsch

Felix Weber

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Peter Kern

Müller

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Isolde Barth

Frau in Pension

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