Despair
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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
Volker Spengler
Ardalion
Dirk Bogarde
Hermann Hermann
Hark Bohm
Doktor
Klaus Löwitsch
Felix Weber
Gottfried John
Perebrodov
Isolde Barth
Frau in Pension
Andréa Ferréol
Lydia Hermann
Adrian Hoven
Inspektor Schelling
Ingrid Caven
Hotelangestellte
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