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Despair
Title
Despair [videorecording] / Bavaria Film International in co-operation with Cinepostproduction ; producer, Peter Martesheimer ; screenplay, Tom Stoppard ; director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Published
[United States] : Olive Films, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978.
Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus ; editors, Juliane Lorenz, Franz Walsch ; music, Peer Raben.
Summary
In early 1930s Germany, 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.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2011
Credits
Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus ; editors, Juliane Lorenz, Franz Walsch ; music, Peer Raben.
Cast
Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Alexander Allerson, Hark Bohm, Gottfried John, Bernard Wicki.
System details note
DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; fully restored in HD.
Audience
Not rated.
Videorecording number
OF287 Olive Films
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films - Germany.
Fantasy films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Also listed under
Bavaria Film International (Firm)
Cinepostproduction (Firm)
Olive Films.
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