Despair (1979)
Despair is a book-based movie adapted from "Despair" by Vladimir Nabokov. This Drama/Thriller film is a direct adaptation, and its release date is February 16, 1979.
The Source Material
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Overview
Despair’s protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd genius, Hermann is one with such other heteroclitic neurotic Nabokovia…
About The Movie
Description
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.
Details
- Title
- Despair
- Original Title
- Despair
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- US Theatrical
- February 16, 1979
- US Theatrical Note
- New York City, New York