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Despair (1978)

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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Robert B 29 Sep 2015

Despair is a fun and absurd feature. The filmmaking is reminiscent of Bunuel, especially the upfront symbolic imagery, yet the style is distinctly playful, both camera work and acting.

Elliott Stein 12 Dec 2017

Despair does absolutely nothing worth doing, but it does succeed in one area where several hack directors before him failed: bagging a bad performance from Dirk Bogarde.

Naoya K 08 Mar 2012

it's both bold and beautiful to look at, but suffers from obfuscation -- perhaps becuase it's in English rather than German.

Private U 27 Jul 2008

The first 20 minutes are out-of-sight amazing. Hermann Hermann is "so masterful". After that, the movie drags. My friend Gordon told me that its kind of better than the book. Not Nabokov's strongest work, I guess.

Alex B 23 Sep 2014

I wish I had watched a double of this movie instead, one that wasn't so metaphysical or psychological. A poor imposter for criticism of the bourgeoisie, capitalism, nazism/fascism.