Despair

★★★★★

Turkish title: Ümitsizlik

“A hysterical comedy”

1978 · 1 h 59 min

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Cast

Dirk Bogarde

Plot

An English-language film about a man who thinks he has found his double.

Sinekatalog’s take

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's English-language drama stars Dirk Bogarde as a Berlin businessman obsessed with a double in 1930s Germany. Stylised and sardonic, with a script by Tom Stoppard, it is a chilly, clever, flawed study of identity.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (3,026 votes)
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