Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Tom StoppardCinematography:
Michael BallhausComposer:
Peer RabenCast:
Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Y Sa Lo, Gottfried John, Hark Bohm, Bernhard Wicki, Adrian Hoven, Ingrid Caven (more)Plots(1)
Chocolate, cuckoldry and doppelganger delusion abound in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's stunning English language adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov interwar novel. The chocolate business has been good to Russian exile Hermann. He enjoys the good life with his beautiful wife Lydia. But Hermann is addicted to out-of-body experiences and when he meets a tramp on a business trip, he develops an insane plan of escape. Featuring international stars Dirk Bogarde and Andréa Ferréol and adapted by British dramatist Tom Stoppard, Fassbinder's Despair is a vivid off-kilter masterwork set against the background of the Nazis in ascendance. (Park Circus)
(more)Cast
Dirk Bogarde
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Damned (1969)
Andréa Ferréol
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Klaus Löwitsch
German Empire
Best movies:
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Volker Spengler
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Peter Kern
Austria
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Die Wildente (1976)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Y Sa Lo
Austria
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Lola (1981)
Gottfried John
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
Hark Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Underground (1995)
Bernhard Wicki
Austria
Best movies:
Paris, Texas (1984)
La Notte (1961)
Lemmings, Part 1 - Arcades (1979) (TV movie)
Adrian Hoven
Austria
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Ingrid Caven
German Empire
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Roger Fritz
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Despair (1978)
Lilo Pempeit
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Harry Baer
Germany
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
Horst Sachtleben
German Empire
Best movies:
Beyond Silence (1996)
Joseph Balsamo (1973) (series)
Gringos Do Not Forgive (1965)
Armin Meier
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Alexander Allerson
German Empire
Best movies:
Battle of Britain (1969)
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Isolde Barth
West Germany
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Juliane Lorenz
West Germany
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
In a Year of Thirteen Moons (1978)
Gitty Djamal
Iran
Best movies:
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Despair (1978)