Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Tom StoppardCinematography:
Michael BallhausComposer:
Peer RabenCast:
Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern, Y Sa Lo, Gottfried John, Hark Bohm, Bernhard Wicki, Adrian Hoven, Ingrid Caven (more)Plots(1)
Based on the classic novel by Vladimir Nabokov with screenplay adaptation by Tom Stoppard. In early 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power, Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde), a Russian emigrant and successful chocolate magnate, starts experiencing mental breakdowns. He soon meets Felix, an unemployed laborer, who Hermann believes to be his doppelganger. He hatches up an elaborate plot, which he believes will free him of all his worries and nightmares. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Dirk Bogarde](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/564/164564138_93b4cf.jpg)
Dirk Bogarde
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Damned (1969)
![Andréa Ferréol](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/736/163736476_fdaedb.jpg)
Andréa Ferréol
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
The Tin Drum (1979)
![Klaus Löwitsch](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/070/162070579_7e2312.jpg)
Klaus Löwitsch
German Empire
Best movies:
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Volker Spengler
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
![Peter Kern](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/966/157966816_759b2b.jpg)
Peter Kern
Austria
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Die Wildente (1976)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Y Sa Lo
Austria
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Lola (1981)
![Gottfried John](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/737/158737774_2f8d59.jpg)
Gottfried John
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
![Hark Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/289/162289356_65055c.jpg)
Hark Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Underground (1995)
![Bernhard Wicki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271502_ab819e.jpg)
Bernhard Wicki
Austria
Best movies:
Paris, Texas (1984)
La Notte (1961)
Lemmings, Part 1 - Arcades (1979) (TV movie)
![Adrian Hoven](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/127/186/127186508_2d141f.jpg)
Adrian Hoven
Austria
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
![Ingrid Caven](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272270_88b84a.jpg)
Ingrid Caven
German Empire
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
![Roger Fritz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/748/166748661_7c0576.jpg)
Roger Fritz
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Despair (1978)
![Lilo Pempeit](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/405/159405968_fe2dd6.jpg)
Lilo Pempeit
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
![Harry Baer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/388/160388377_e88a38.jpg)
Harry Baer
Germany
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
![Horst Sachtleben](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/282/159282271_709c89.jpg)
Horst Sachtleben
German Empire
Best movies:
Beyond Silence (1996)
Joseph Balsamo (1973) (series)
Black Eagle of Santa Fe (1965)
Armin Meier
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Satan's Brew (1976)
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) (TV movie)
![Alexander Allerson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/428/159428403_14eea3.jpg)
Alexander Allerson
German Empire
Best movies:
Battle of Britain (1969)
Satan's Brew (1976)
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) (TV movie)
![Isolde Barth](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/857/165857782_b9f80f.jpg)
Isolde Barth
West Germany
Best movies:
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Juliane Lorenz
West Germany
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
Gitty Djamal
Iran
Best movies:
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)
Despair (1978)