Despair

Year: 1978

Runtime: 117 mins

Language: English

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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A hysterical comedy set in Berlin in 1930 as Nazism rises. Russian émigré Hermann Hermann, a chocolate maker married to capricious Lydia, sees his temper fray while dealing with workers and businessmen. When he meets Felix, a vagrant who is his uncanny physical double, Hermann plots a way out of the pretended world he loathes.

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