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.
berlin, germany
husband wife relationship
based on novel or book
businessman
chocolate
identity
paranoia
identity crisis
attempt to escape
painter
republic of weimar
alienation
antisemitism
mental illness
madness
assumed identity
doppelgänger
insurance policy
double
vagrant
nazism
foreshadowing
russian emigre
murder plot
1930s
perfect murder
self image
film within a film
performative
dissociation
jewish ancestry
jewish wife
rise of fascism
rise of nazism
victimhood