Despair

Vladimir Nabokov (novel)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (director)
Tom Stoppard (screenwriter)
Dirk Bograde, Andrea Ferreol, Klaus Lowitsch, Volker Spengler (starring)

Munich: Bavaria Atelier, 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso.

Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman Herman (Dirk Bograde), a Russian immigrant and Jewish business owner in Berlin is targeted by Nazis. While slowly losing his mind he fixates on a man he believes to be his doppelganger. After taking out a new life insurance policy he devises a plan to free himself of his problems. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Shot on location in Germany.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #144593]