Despair
A hysterical comedy
117 mins
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.
Alexander Allerson
Mayer
Y Sa Lo
Elsie
Voli Geiler
1st Landlady
Gitty Djamal
Woman in Pension
Osman Ragheb
Post Office Clerck
Hans Zander
Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]
Juliane Lorenz
Editor
Dagmar Schauberger
Costume Designer
Dieter Minx
Production Supervisor
Lutz Hengst
Production Executive
Unica Zürn
In Memory Of
James Willis
Sound Mixer
Milan Bor
Sound Mixer
Herbert Strabel
Art Direction
Jochen Schumacher
Art Direction
Peter Knöpfle
Makeup Artist
Any Nöbauer
Makeup Artist
Elke Vogt
Script Supervisor
Christine Fritz
Assistant Editor
Wulf Ghastaus
Unit Manager
Don French
Unit Manager
Lutz Winter
Unit Manager
Georg Kuhn
Wardrobe Supervisor
Karin Geuer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Still Photographer
John Stevenson
Boom Operator
Klaus Meyenberg
Property Master
Ulrich Wendt
Property Master
Milan Bor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jochen Schumacher
Set Decoration
Stefan Zürcher
Assistant Director
Ronald M. Scheich
Assistant Director
Rudolf Geiger
Unit Manager
Marcel Höhn
Unit Manager
Max Dietl
Costume Designer
Lothar Tropp
Property Master
Peter Märthesheimer
Producer