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Despair

In the surroundings of Nazi Germany, Hermann fights his descent into madness.

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  • "Despair: eine Reise ins Licht"
  • "Reise ins Licht"
  • "Eine reise ins licht"
  • "Désespoir"
  • "Despair"
  • "Uma viagem de luz"
  • "Despair, eine reise ins licht"
  • "cinema and its double"
  • "Reise ins licht"

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  • "In Germany in the 1930's, chocolate manufacturer Hermann is suffering from progressing schizophrenia. To solve his business and personal problems he needs a double, in the form of his supposed brother, to murder in an insurance swindle."
  • "Hermann Hermann, the bored owner of a Berlin chocolate factory, meets a drifter whom he perceives as his exact double, though in fact the two look nothing alike. He decides to murder the man in order to exchange identities."
  • "Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts to experience hallucinations. One day, he meets Felix and is sure that this man is his doppelganger. His delusional thinking leads him to hatch a plan to relieve him of his mental anguish."
  • "En 1929, un industriel schizophrène fixe son obsession du dédoublement sur un clochard qu'il persuade d'endosser son identité. Puis, il le tue."
  • "Based on the classic novel by Vladimir Nabokov. In early 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Nazi's rise to power, Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts experiencing mental breakdowns. He soon meets Felix, an unemployed laborer, who Hermann believes to be his doppelganger. He hatches up an elaborate plot, which he believes will free him of all his worries and nightmares."
  • "In Germany in the 1930's Hermann Hermann, the bored owner of a Berlin chocolate factory, is suffering from progressing schizophrenia. To solve his business and personal problems he needs a double. Then he meets a drifter and decides to murder the man in order to exchange identities."
  • "In Germany in the 1930's, chocolate manufacturer Hermann is suffering from progressing schizophrenia : to solve his business and personal problems he needs a double, in the form of his supposed brother, to murder in an insurance swindle."
  • "In the surroundings of Nazi Germany, Hermann fights his descent into madness."@en
  • "In the surroundings of Nazi Germany, Hermann fights his descent into madness."
  • "Een zakenman uit Berlijn vermoordt in de jaren dertig van de 20e eeuw een man die op hem lijkt om een nieuwe identiteit aan te nemen en te vluchten met zijn vrouw die het verzekeringsgeld dan heeft opgestreken."
  • "A film based on Nabokov's novel about a schizophrenic businessman who understands the shadow falling over Germany in the early 1930's and attempts to use that knowledge to feather his own nest."
  • "A film based on Nabokov's novel about a schizophrenic businessman who understands the shadow falling over Germany in the early 1930's and attempts to use that knowledge to feather his own nest."@en
  • "Fiction. Drame. Dans les années 30, un industriel allemand psychotique songe à disparaître. Il met au point une sombre machination afin de changer d'identité. Avec Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Bernhard Wicki."

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  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
  • "Films fantastiques"
  • "Film de fiction (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Drama"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Fantasy films"

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  • "Despair"@en
  • "Despair"
  • "Despair (Motion picture : 1978)"
  • "Despair, eine Reise ins Licht (film)"

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