Despair (film)
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| Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Screenplay by | Tom Stoppard |
| Based on | Despair by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Andréa Ferréol Klaus Löwitsch Volker Spengler |
| Cinematography | Michael Ballhaus |
| Edited by | Reginald Beck Juliane Lorenz Franz Walsch |
| Music by | Peer Raben |
| Distributed by | Filmverlag der Autoren (West Germany) New Line Cinema (USA) |
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Running time | 120 |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | English |
| Budget | 6 million DM ($2.6 million) |
Despair is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation.