Despair

A hysterical comedy

Plot Summary

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.

6.5 /10

1978

US

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berlin, germany

husband wife relationship

based on novel or book

chocolate

republic of weimar

doppelgänger

nazism

russian emigre

1930s