Despair

Cast

Actor/-ess

Dirk Bogarde (Hermann Hermann)

Andréa Ferréol (Lydia Hermann)

Klaus Löwitsch (Felix Weber)

Volker Spengler (Ardalion)

Peter Kern (Müller)

Alexander Allerson (Mayer)

Gottfried John (doctor)

Hark Bohm (doctor)

Bernhard Wicki (Orlovius)

Adrian Hoven (inspector Schelling)

Roger Fritz (inspector Braun)

Y Sa Lo (maid Elsie)

Liselotte Eder (secretary Müller)

Armin Meier (foreman)

Ingrid Caven (receptionist)

Voli Geiler (Madam)

Hans Zander (Müllers brother)

Isolde Barth (woman)

Harry Baer (porter)

Gitty Djamal (woman)

Direction

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Assistant director

Harry Baer

Stefan Zurcher

Writing

Screenplay

Tom Stoppard

Based on

Vladimir Nabokov

Script supervisor

Elke Vogt

Dialogue

Osman Ragheb

Camera & Light

Director of photography

Michael Ballhaus

Camera operator

Otto Kirchhoff

Assistant camera / focus puller

Horst Knechtel

Still photographer

Karl-Heinz Vogelmann

Decor

Production design

Rolf Zehetbauer

Set design

Herbert Strabel

Jochen Schumacher

Prop master

Klaus Meyenberg

Uli Wendt

Make-up artist

Peter Knöpfle

Anni Nöbauer

Costume design

Dagmar Schauberger

Wardrobe

Georg Kuhn

Karin Geuer

Cutting & Mixing

Editing

Juliane Maria Lorenz

Reginald Beck (english version)

Assistant editor

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Christine Fritz

Sound

Jim Willis

Sound assistant

John Stevenson

Audio mixing

Milan Bor

Music

Music

Peer Raben

Production

Producer

Peter Märthesheimer

Line producer

Lutz Hengst

Unit production manager

Dieter Minx

Location manager

Wulf Gasthaus

Lutz Winter

Don French

Companies

Production company

NF Geria II Film GmbH

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

in Co-Operation

Société Française de Production (S.F.P.)

Bavaria Atelier GmbH