Desesperación
Director:
Rainer Werner FassbinderGuión:
Tom StoppardCámara:
Michael BallhausMúsica:
Peer RabenReparto:
Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Y Sa Lo, Gottfried John, Hark Bohm, Bernhard Wicki, Adrian Hoven, Ingrid Caven (más)Sinopsis(1)
El crack de 1929 y el incipiente e imparable auge del nazismo unido a una asfixiante, monótona y vacía vida burguesa hacen que el emigrante ruso fabricante de chocolates Hermann Hermann decida emigrar "hacia la locura" asesinando a quien él considera su doble perfecto -un vagabundo- para asumir así su identidad. Con ello pretende comenzar una nueva y utópica vida en Suiza y liberarse de su oligofrénica mujer, del primo-amante artista de aquélla y de su acomodada posición social. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (1)
Although we do not find Fassbinder in the subtitles under the standard "Book and Direction," the film is one of his better ones, thanks in part to the excellent camera work of his frequent collaborator M. Ballhaus. However, the subject of the screenplay must not be overlooked because a plot requiring concentration (thanks to the 2-hour runtime) offers many surprises. The story follows the troubled industrialist Hermann, whose identity begins to unravel due to anxieties in his personal life (alienation from the country he lives in, emptiness of the people close to him), failures in his professional life (the decline of the factory and the end of the chocolate-sweet bourgeois lifestyle), and the emerging (chocolatey) brown threat. His unconscious split personality subconsciously serves as an escape from his empty rootless self, foolishly thinking that he can rid himself of it at the expense of adopting someone else's identity (legal and psychological). The film within the film is thus a clue to the very motif of the film.
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