Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Having made as many films as he had years at 31 Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film Despair Here he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov Furthermore the entire film set in 1930s Germany is in English In the story a Russian owner of a German chocolate-factory whose business & marriage are both on the rocks fantasizes about leaving his current life & living another one Indeed he has delusions that he is somehow outside himself watching himself live his life So strong is his desire to alter his life that when he encounters a tramp while on a brief business trip he imagines that the man looks exactly like him decides to exchange identities with the tramp & murders him Actors Dirk Bogarde Andrea Ferreol Klaus Löwitsch Volker Spengler Peter Kern Alexander Allerson Gottfried John Hark Bohm Bernhard Wicki & Armin Meier Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder Certificate 12 years & over Year 1978 Screen Widescreen 1781 Languages German
- Dolby Digital Stereo (20) Additional Languages English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx)