Despair
By: Geria Film GMBH presents a Rainer Werner Fassbinder film ; dramatised for the screen by Tom Stoppard ; produced by Peter Martesheimer ; directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Contributors: Märthesheimer, Peter, 1937-2004, producer; Bogarde, Dirk, 1921-1999, actor; Ferréol, Andréa, 1947- actor; Löwitsch, Klaus, 1936-2002, actor; Spengler, Volker, actor; Kern, Peter, 1949-2015 actor; Allerson, Alexander, actor; Bohm, Hark, 1939- actor; John, Gottfried, 1942-2014, actor; Wicki, Bernhard, 1919-2000, actor; Ballhaus, Michael, 1935-2017 cinematographer; Lorenz, Juliane, film editor; Walsch, Franz, film editor; Raben, Peer, composer; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; Geria (Firm); Bavaria Film International (Firm); Cinepostproduction (Firm); Olive Films
Publisher: Olive Films
Published: 2011
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Drama; Mentally ill; Businessmen; Russians; Doppelgängers; Feature films; Film adaptations
Work titles: Despair (Motion picture : 1978)
Description: Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts to experience hallucinations. One day, he meets Felix and is sure that this man is his doppelganger. His delusional thinking leads him to hatch a plan to relieve him of his mental anguish.
Notes: "... Bavaria Film International presents ... Restored by Bavaria Media in co-operation with Cinepostproduction"--Container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.

Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus ; editors, Juliane Lorenz, Franz Walsch ; music, Peer Raben.

Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Alexander Allerson, Hark Bohm, Gottfried John, Bernard Wicki.

Not rated.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; fully restored in HD.

German Film Awards (1978):  Outstanding cinematography, direction, and production design.