Despair (1978)
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Germany, France
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 47 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A chocolate factory owner in 1930s Berlin plans an elaborate scheme to fake his own death and escape his life. The film follows his psychological unraveling as he becomes increasingly convinced he has found a perfect double.
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What happens
Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. The tone of the film, like that of the novel, is ironic. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Ciocolată cu alune (1978)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.