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Despair

Despair (1978)

1978-09-15 · 117 min · Rating 6.50/10 (46 votes)

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.

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

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