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.
Is Despair on Netflix? Unfortunately the movie Despair is not yet available on Netflix.
| Sound | Peer Raben | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Vladimir Nabokov | Novel |
| Directing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Director |
| Writing | Tom Stoppard | Screenplay |
| Camera | Michael Ballhaus | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Juliane Lorenz | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Georg Kuhn | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Production | Lutz Winter | Unit Manager |
| Production | Lutz Hengst | Production Executive |
| Sound | James Willis | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Dieter Minx | Production Supervisor |
| Art | Rolf Zehetbauer | Production Design |
| Crew | Vincent van Gogh | In Memory Of |
| Editing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Karin Geuer | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Art | Herbert Strabel | Art Direction |
| Production | Wulf Ghastaus | Unit Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dagmar Schauberger | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Any Nöbauer | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Jochen Schumacher | Art Direction |
| Sound | Milan Bor | Sound Mixer |
| Crew | Unica Zürn | In Memory Of |
| Costume & Make-Up | Peter Knöpfle | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Karl-Heinz Vogelmann | Still Photographer |
| Directing | Elke Vogt | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Harry Baer | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Antonin Artaud | In Memory Of |
| Production | Don French | Unit Manager |
| Editing | Christine Fritz | Assistant Editor |
| Art | Jochen Schumacher | Set Decoration |
| Production | Marcel Höhn | Unit Manager |
| Sound | Milan Bor | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Directing | Ronald M. Scheich | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Max Dietl | Costume Designer |
| Production | Rudolf Geiger | Unit Manager |
| Directing | Stefan Zürcher | Assistant Director |
| Art | Klaus Meyenberg | Property Master |
| Art | Ulrich Wendt | Property Master |
| Sound | John Stevenson | Boom Operator |
| Art | Lothar Tropp | Property Master |
| Production | Peter Märthesheimer | Producer |
