DVD
Despair
Call Number
- DVD MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)
Performers
Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Alexander Allerson, Hark Bohm, Gottfried John, Bernard Wicki.
Publication Information
[Saint Charles, IL] : Olive Films, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In early 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power, Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts experiencing mental breakdowns. He soon meets Felix, an unemployed laborer, who Hermann believes to be his doppelganger. He hatches an elaborate plot, which he believes will free him of all his worries and nightmares.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1978.