In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?
1978
HD
117min
Germany
English
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Dirk Bogarde
Andréa Ferréol
Volker Spengler
Klaus Löwitsch
Adrian Hoven
Peter Kern
Hark Bohm
Armin Meier
Bernhard Wicki
based on novel or book
doppelganger
berlin germany
husband wife relationship
1930s
nazism
chocolate
republic of weimar
russian emigre
