Despair

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.

Dirk Bogarde

Hermann Hermann

Andréa Ferréol

Lydia Hermann

Klaus Löwitsch

Felix Weber

Volker Spengler

Ardalion

Peter Kern

Müller

Gottfried John

Perebrodov

Alexander Allerson

Mayer

Bernhard Wicki

Orlovius

Adrian Hoven

Inspector Schelling

Hark Bohm

Doctor

Roger Fritz

Inspector Braun

Armin Meier

Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

Y Sa Lo

Elsie

Lilo Pempeit

Mrs. Schmidt

Ingrid Caven

Hotel Manager

Voli Geiler

1st Landlady

Isolde Barth

2nd Landlady

Gitty Djamal

Woman in Pension