Despair

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.

• berlin, germany
• husband wife relationship
• based on novel or book
• businessman
• chocolate
• identity
• paranoia
• identity crisis
• attempt to escape
• painter
• republic of weimar
• alienation
• antisemitism
• mental illness
• madness
• assumed identity
• doppelgänger
• insurance policy
• double
• vagrant
• nazism
• russian emigre
• murder plot
• 1930s
• perfect murder
• self image
• film within a film
• performative
• dissociation
• jewish ancestry
• jewish wife
• rise of fascism
• rise of nazism
• victimhood