Despair [videorecording] / Bavaria Film International in co-operation with Cinepostproduction ; producer, Peter Martesheimer ; screenplay, Tom Stoppard ; director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Title from container. Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Alexander Allerson, Hark Bohm, Gottfried John, Bernard Wicki. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Summary:
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.
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