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Despair (1978)

★ 6.5/10 117 min Drama, Thriller Germany English
Novel: Vladimir Nabokov
Screenplay by: Tom Stoppard
Streaming: Not available
A hysterical comedy

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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.

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Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde Hermann Hermann
Andréa Ferréol
Andréa Ferréol Lydia Hermann
Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch Felix Weber
Volker Spengler
Volker Spengler Ardalion
Bernhard Wicki
Bernhard Wicki Orlovius
Armin Meier
Armin Meier Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman
Peter Kern
Peter Kern Müller
Adrian Hoven
Adrian Hoven Inspector Schelling

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