Cast & crew
Despair (1978)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Written by Tom Stoppard
Cast
| Dirk Bogarde | Hermann Göring |
| Volker Spengler | Ardalion |
| Andréa Ferréol | Lydia |
| Klaus Löwitsch | Art Weber |
| Bernhard Wicki | Orlovius |
| Armin Meier | Silverman |
| Peter Kern | Mada MĂĽller |
| Adrian Hoven | Inspector Juve (as Edmond Bréon) |
| Alexander Allerson | Mayer |
| Hark Bohm | Doctor |
| Roger Fritz | Braun |
| Lilo Pempeit | Schmidt |
| Gottfried John | Perebrodov |
| Y Sa Lo | Elsie Beckmann |
| Ingrid Caven | Hotel Recepcionist |
| Voli Geiler | 1st Garbageman |
| Isolde Barth | 2nd. Nazi |
| Osman Ragheb | Buro clerck |
| Gitty Djamal | Homely Pension |
| Harry Baer | Innkeeper |
| Hans Zander | Rustico (scenes deleted) |
Crew
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Director |
| Peer Raben | Original Music Composer |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Novel |
| Michael Ballhaus | Director of Photography |
| Tom Stoppard | Screenplay |
| Juliane Lorenz | Editor |
| Lutz Hengst | Production Executive |
| Georg Kuhn | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Lutz Winter | Unit Manager |
| James Willis | Sound Mixer |
| Dieter Minx | Production Supervisor |
| Rolf Zehetbauer | Production Design |
| Vincent van Gogh | In Memory Of |
| Karin Geuer | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Dagmar Schauberger | Costume Designer |
| Herbert Strabel | Art Direction |
| Wulf Ghastaus | Unit Manager |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Editor |
| Any Nöbauer | Makeup Artist |
| Jochen Schumacher | Art Direction |
| Unica ZĂĽrn | In Memory Of |
| Milan Bor | Sound Mixer |
| Antonin Artaud | In Memory Of |
| Karl-Heinz Vogelmann | Still Photographer |
| Elke Vogt | Script Supervisor |
| Harry Baer | Assistant Director |
| Peter Knöpfle | Makeup Artist |
| Marcel Höhn | Unit Manager |
| Milan Bor | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Ronald M. Scheich | Assistant Director |
| Christine Fritz | Assistant Editor |
| Don French | Unit Manager |
| Jochen Schumacher | Set Decoration |
| Stefan ZĂĽrcher | Assistant Director |
| Max Dietl | Costume Designer |
| Rudolf Geiger | Unit Manager |
| Klaus Meyenberg | Property Master |
| Ulrich Wendt | Property Master |
| Lothar Tropp | Property Master |
| John Stevenson | Boom Operator |
| Peter Märthesheimer | Producer |