Despair
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Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch.
West Germany/France, 1977, 35mm, color, 119 min.
German with English subtitles.
With Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch.
West Germany/France, 1977, 35mm, color, 119 min.
German with English subtitles.
Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov and adapted to the screen by playwright Tom Stoppard, Despair, set in Berlin of the early 1930s, focuses on the odd character of Hermann Hermann (Bogarde), the Russian-émigré owner of a small chocolate factory. Plagued by ennui and an unfaithful wife, Hermann concocts a plan to switch identities with a struggling artist whom he believes, quite erroneously, is his double. A measured study of madness in a time of madness, Despair makes brilliant use of mirrored and glassed interiors and wicked allusions to the historical period.
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