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AdaptionalDumbass: In the original novel, we do not know if the doppelgaenger actually looks like Hermann because he's an unreliable narrator. Naturally this was impossible to portray in a medium as visual as film. Thus, the protagonist comes across as either much stupider or much crazier.
TheDrifter: Felix, the homeless man who Hermann enlists to impersonate him, counts.
HerrDoktor: Hermann mistakes an insurance salesman for an Austrian psychiatrist.
IdenticalStranger: Parodied. Though Hermann is certain that the drifter he encounters looks exactly like him, he in fact does not.
TheDrifter: Felix, the homeless man who Hermann enlists to impersonate him, counts.
HerrDoktor: Hermann mistakes an insurance salesman for an Austrian psychiatrist.
IdenticalStranger: Parodied. Though Hermann is certain that the drifter he encounters looks exactly like him, he in fact does not.
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder with a screenplay by Creator/TomStoppard based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in 1930s Germany, it is about a man who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) to escape his life. This naturally fails.
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder with a screenplay by Creator/TomStoppard based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in 1930s Weimar Germany, it is about a man half-Jewish chocolate maker named Hermann who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who doppelgaenger (a drifter named Felix, who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) him) to escape his life. This naturally fails.
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IdenticalStranger: Parodied. Though Bogarde's character is certain that the drifter he encounters looks exactly like him, he in fact does not.
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AdaptionalDumbass: In the original novel, we do not know if the doppelgaenger actually looks like Hermann because he's an unreliable narrator. Naturally this was impossible to portray in a medium as visual as film. Thus, the protagonist comes across as either much stupider or much crazier.
TheDrifter: Felix, the homeless man who Hermann enlists to impersonate him, counts.
HerrDoktor: Hermann mistakes an insurance salesman for an Austrian psychiatrist.
IdenticalStranger: Parodied. ThoughBogarde's character Hermann is certain that the drifter he encounters looks exactly like him, he in fact does not.
TheDrifter: Felix, the homeless man who Hermann enlists to impersonate him, counts.
HerrDoktor: Hermann mistakes an insurance salesman for an Austrian psychiatrist.
IdenticalStranger: Parodied. Though
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in 1930s Germany, it is about a man who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) to escape his life. This naturally fails.
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder with a screenplay by Creator/TomStoppard based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in 1930s Germany, it is about a man who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) to escape his life. This naturally fails.
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in Depression-era Germany, it is about a man who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) to escape the increasingly hostile world he finds himself in. This naturally fails.
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in Depression-era 1930s Germany, it is about a man who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) to escape the increasingly hostile world he finds himself in.his life. This naturally fails.
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IdenticalStranger: Parodied. Though Bogarde's character is certain that the drifter he encounters looks exactly like him, he in fact does not.
IdenticalStranger: Parodied. Though Bogarde's character is certain that the drifter he encounters looks exactly like him, he in fact does not.
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''Despair'' is a English-language film by German New Wave enfant terrible Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder based on the novel of the same name by Creator/VladimirNabokov. Starring Creator/DirkBogarde as a chocolate company owner in Depression-era Germany, it is about a man who attempts to enlist the help of a supposed doppelganger (who in fact looks nothing like Bogarde's character) to escape the increasingly hostile world he finds himself in. This naturally fails.
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