Despair (1978)

Directors

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Löwitsch, Alexander Allerson, Bernhard Wicki, Peter Kern, Gottfried John

The story

Hermann Hermann lives in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. A refugee from Soviet Russia, with a Baltic German father and a wealthy Jewish mother, he has inherited a business making chocolates. His Jewish wife Lydia, voluptuous but not intelligent, has an over-close relationship with her bachelor cousin, a painter called Ardalion.

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