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Despair (1978) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 20, 1978

Original Title:
Despair

Alternate Titles:
Den desperate mand
Despair: Uma Viagem na Luz
Dobbeltgjengeren
Désespoir
Kohti auringonlaskua
Uma Viagem para a Luz
Utazás a fénybe
Απόγνωση
デスペア 光明への旅

Genres:
Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
Bavaria Studios

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  NL: 12 

Runtime: 117

A hysterical comedy

Overview from TheMovieDB

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

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Art Direction:
Herbert Strabel
Jochen Schumacher

Assistant Director:
Harry Baer
Stefan Zürcher
Ronald M. Scheich

Assistant Editor:
Christine Fritz

Boom Operator:
John Stevenson

Costume Designer:
Dagmar Schauberger
Max Dietl

Director:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director of Photography:
Michael Ballhaus

Editor:
Juliane Lorenz
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

In Memory Of:
Antonin Artaud
Vincent van Gogh
Unica Zürn

Makeup Artist:
Peter Knöpfle
Any Nöbauer

Novel:
Vladimir Nabokov

Original Music Composer:
Peer Raben

Producer:
Peter Märthesheimer

Production Design:
Rolf Zehetbauer

Production Executive:
Lutz Hengst

Production Supervisor:
Dieter Minx

Property Master:
Klaus Meyenberg
Ulrich Wendt
Lothar Tropp

Screenplay:
Tom Stoppard

Script Supervisor:
Elke Vogt

Set Decoration:
Jochen Schumacher

Sound Mixer:
James Willis
Milan Bor

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Milan Bor

Still Photographer:
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann

Unit Manager:
Wulf Ghastaus
Don French
Lutz Winter
Rudolf Geiger
Marcel Höhn

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Georg Kuhn
Karin Geuer

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