Movie

Despair

12 1978 1 h 57 min
65%
Audience score48 votes on TMDB

“A hysterical comedy”

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.

Screenplay
Tom Stoppard
Status
Released
Release date
20/09/1978
Original language
English
Budget
US$ 3 M

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