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Despair

1978 · 117 min

A wry, unsettling descent into a deluded mind, stylish and ironic, where absurdity and dread walk hand in hand.

Tagline: A hysterical comedy
Overview: Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

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Tone: satiricalstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
madness
isolation
deception
betrayal
Places: big city
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild