Despair (1978)★ 6.9/10

XWG,FR · 119 min · May 19, 1978

• Drama
• History

Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written by: Tom Stoppard, Vladimir Nabokov

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. Will he get over the deep despair?