Despair Movie Review 1978

A chilling and comic study of a victimized chocolate factory owner's descent into madness, set against the backdrop of the Nazi rise to power in the 1930s. Adapted from the Nabokov novel by Tom Stoppard.

Distribution

German Language Video Center, 7625 Pendleton Pike, Indianapolis, IN 46226-5298, Phone: (317)547-1257, Fax: (317)547-1263, Email: glve@indy.net, URL: http://www.germanvideo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 120 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, Sanity Check, Books to Film: Vladimir Nabokov

Screenplay

Tom Stoppard

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Lowitsch

Cinematography

Michael Ballhaus

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Music

Peer Raben

Producer

New Line Cinema