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Sep 20, 1978 · Despair: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler. In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one.
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Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. [4] Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic.
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Feb 17, 2019 · Despair 1978Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It...
Andréa Ferréol (born Andrée Louise Ferréol; January 6, 1947) is a French actress and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2009).. Her debut was in the 1973 film La Grande bouffe, which made a big scandal at the Cannes Film Festival.
YearTitleRoleDirector2023Même pas malThe great grandmotherSarah Stern2023Notre tout petit petit mariageYvetteFrédéric Quiring2022Choeur de rockersIrèneLuc Bricault & Ida Techer2022EnvolMadame McKenzieFrédéric Cerulli- Actress
- January 6, 1947 (age 76), Aix-en-Provence, France
- 1971–present
- Omar Sharif (until his death)
Dec 10, 2013 · Despair was based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name. It was written as a parody of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. It was German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first English language movie and by far his most expensive film up till that time. In fact it has been reported that Despair cost more than his previous fifteen movies ...
Feb 16, 1979 · IN the 1965 preface to his revised edition of "Despair," his novel first published in 1936. ... from himself.When Hermann makes love to Lydia (Andrea Ferreol), his plump, pretty wife who has a ...
Jun 7, 2011 · Fassbinder, was at the pinnacle of his creativity and his ability, found himself working along side international stars the caliber of Dirk Bogarde, enticed out of semi-retirement to work with the German New Wave director, and French actress Andrea Ferreol, whose debut film La Grande bouffe (1973) had coursed quite a sensation at the Cannes ...
