Despair (Original title)Eine Reise ins Licht (Alternative title)Desespoir (Alternative title)
Date: 1978 (Copyright)Countries: Federal Republic of Germany, FranceDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Synopsis: A man, seeking his identity, commits murder both to rid himself of his double and of his dim-witted wife.Synopsis: Budget: c DM 6 000 000.
Genre: Crime
Subject: Homicide
Releases
Date: May 1978Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 119 mins Length: 3265 MetresLanguage: English
Date: 1978 (Copyright)Countries: Federal Republic of Germany, FranceDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Synopsis: A man, seeking his identity, commits murder both to rid himself of his double and of his dim-witted wife.Synopsis: Budget: c DM 6 000 000.
Genre: Crime
Subject: Homicide
Releases
Date: May 1978Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 119 mins Length: 3265 MetresLanguage: English
Credits
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Production Company: Geria Film, Production Company: Bavaria Atelier GmbH, Production Company: Société Française de Production, Producer: Peter Märthesheimer, Production Executive: Lutz Hengst, Unit Manager: Wulf Gasthaus, Unit Manager: Don French, Lutz Winter, Production Supervisor: Dieter Minx, Assistant Director: Harry Baer, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Stefan Zürcher, Script Supervisor: Elke Vogt, Screenplay: Tom Stoppard, Based on the novel 'Otchayanie' by: Vladimir Nabokov, Director of Photography: Michael Ballhaus, Camera Assistant: Horst Knechtel, Otto Kirchhoff, Stills Photography: Karl Heinz Vogelmann, Editor: Juliane Lorenz, Editor: Franz Walsch, Editor [English Version]: Reginald Beck, Assistant Editor: Christine Fritz, Production Designer: Rolf Zehetbauer, Art Director: Herbert Strabel, Art Director: Jochen Schumacher, Props: Klaus Meyenberg, Ulrich Wendt, Costumes: Dagmar Schauberger, Wardrobe: Georg Kuhn, Wardrobe: Karin Geuer, Make-up: Peter Knöpfle, Make-up: Anny Nöbauer, Music: Peer Raben, Sound Mixer: James Willis, Milan Bor, Boom Man: John Stevenson, [Dedicated] To: Antonin Artaud, [Dedicated] To: Vincent van Gogh, Unica Zürn, Dialogue Supervisor: Osman Ragheb, Publicity: Patricia Johnson
Cast
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Dirk Bogarde (Hermann Hermann), Andréa Ferréol (Lydia Hermann), Klaus Löwitsch (Felix Weber), Volker Spengler (Ardalion), Armin Meier (factory foreman/twins), Peter Kern (Müller), Adrian Hoven (Inspector Schelling), Alexander Allerson (Mayer), Hark Bohm (doctor), Roger Fritz (Inspector Braun), Gottfried John (Perebrodov), Y Sa Lo (Elsie), Lilo Pempeit (Müller's secretary), Ingrid Caven (hotel receptionist), Voli Geiler (Madam), Isolde Barth (woman), Bernhard Wicki (Orlovius), Hans Zander ([Müller's brother]), Gitty Djamal ([woman in pension]), Harry Baer ([doorman])