West Germany / France,
1978, 119 min
Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Tom StoppardCinematography:
Michael BallhausComposer:
Peer RabenCast:
Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Y Sa Lo, Gottfried John, Hark Bohm, Bernhard Wicki, Adrian Hoven, Ingrid Caven (more)Plots(1)
Based on the classic novel by Vladimir Nabokov with screenplay adaptation by Tom Stoppard. In early 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power, Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde), 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 up an elaborate plot, which he believes will free him of all his worries and nightmares. (official distributor synopsis)
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