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Despair (1978)
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler
6.9
65%Runtime117 min
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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.
Critical Reception & Ratings
Despair, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 film, has received a mixed critical reception. While it has a respectable 6.9/10 rating on IMDb, the Rotten Tomatoes score of 65% indicates a more divided response from critics and audiences. The film's psychological thriller elements and exploration of identity have made it a somewhat divisive but notable entry in Fassbinder's body of work.
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Fans of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's distinctive directorial style and complex character studies will find much to appreciate in this 1978 psychological thriller, which stars the brilliant Dirk Bogarde as a chocolate manufacturer unraveling amid the rise of Nazism in Berlin.
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Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
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