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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.
Keywords
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
foreshadowing
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
Casts

Dirk Bogarde
Hermann Hermann

Andréa Ferréol
Lydia Hermann

Klaus Löwitsch
Felix Weber

Volker Spengler
Ardalion

Bernhard Wicki
Orlovius

Armin Meier
Silverman / Sergeant Brown / Foreman

Peter Kern
Müller

Adrian Hoven
Inspector Schelling
Alexander Allerson
Mayer

Hark Bohm
Doctor

Roger Fritz
Inspector Braun

Gottfried John
Perebrodov
Y Sa Lo
Elsie

Lilo Pempeit
Mrs. Schmidt

Ingrid Caven
Hotel Manager
Voli Geiler
1st Landlady

Isolde Barth
2nd Landlady
Gitty Djamal
Woman in Pension

Harry Baer
Innkeeper
Osman Ragheb
Post Office Clerck
Hans Zander
Müller's Brother [Scenes Deleted]
Crews

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director

Tom Stoppard
Screenplay

Vladimir Nabokov
Novel

Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography

Peer Raben
Original Music Composer
Juliane Lorenz
Editor

Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design
Dagmar Schauberger
Costume Designer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Editor
Dieter Minx
Production Supervisor
Lutz Hengst
Production Executive

Antonin Artaud
In Memory Of

Vincent van Gogh
In Memory Of
Unica Zürn
In Memory Of
James Willis
Sound Mixer
Milan Bor
Sound Mixer
Herbert Strabel
Art Direction
Jochen Schumacher
Art Direction
Peter Knöpfle
Makeup Artist
Any Nöbauer
Makeup Artist
Elke Vogt
Script Supervisor
Christine Fritz
Assistant Editor

Harry Baer
Assistant Director
Wulf Ghastaus
Unit Manager
Don French
Unit Manager
Lutz Winter
Unit Manager
Georg Kuhn
Wardrobe Supervisor
Karin Geuer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Still Photographer
John Stevenson
Boom Operator
Klaus Meyenberg
Property Master
Ulrich Wendt
Property Master
Milan Bor
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jochen Schumacher
Set Decoration
Stefan Zürcher
Assistant Director
Ronald M. Scheich
Assistant Director
Rudolf Geiger
Unit Manager
Marcel Höhn
Unit Manager
Max Dietl
Costume Designer
Lothar Tropp
Property Master
Peter Märthesheimer
Producer
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