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  1. Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic.

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0077421Despair (1978) - IMDb

    Sep 20, 1978 · In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one.

    • (2.7K)
    • Drama, History
    • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    • 1978-09-20
  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt5238824Despair (2017) - IMDb

    Apr 1, 2017 · Despair: Directed by Hank Orion. With Brian Dives, Ryan O'Grady, Michael Wouters, Jagoda Kamov. After Jack and Lucy rescue a woman from freezing cold in the middle of Scottish mountains, they come to realize that the woman is not who she says she is and that she has not the best intentions.

    • (2.9K)
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Hank Orion
    • 2017-04-01
  4. www.bfi.org.uk › film › fa5ee3e8-2cea-54e2-b608Despair (1978) | BFI

    Despair (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin. With his business about to fail, Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde), an exiled Russian chocolate manufacturer, encounters his double and plans the perfect crime.

  5. Apr 17, 2021 · Rainer Werner Fassbinders first English language film Despair (1978) is a fascinating entry in his filmography: while it is set in Germany, it is his first film in English, with iconic English actor Dirk Bogarde in the lead.

    • Martyn Bamber
  6. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin.

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    • 117 min
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