With his business about to fail, Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde), an exiled Russian chocolate manufacturer, encounters his double and plans the perfect crime.
Hypnotically watchable, Bogarde does exquisite justice to the sparkling dialogue, endowing Hermann with complex interior life.
Despair (1978)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.
- 1978 Federal Republic of Germany, France
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Produced by
- Peter Märthesheimer
- Written by
- Tom Stoppard
- Featuring
- Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
- Running time
- 119 minutes