
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Box office
Made on a $2.6M budget
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Based on
Based on the novel Despair
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Filming locations
Filmed in Bavaria
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Setting
Set in Berlin
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Music
Music by Peer Raben
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Tom StoppardScreenplay
- Vladimir NabokovNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 20, 1978
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $2.6M
- Countries
- Germany





































