Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany | 1978 | 119mins | Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol and Klaus Löwitsch
A lush, headily psychedelic drama, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s English language film benefits from a superb adaptation of Nabokov’s novel by playwright Tom Stoppard.
Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice) stars as Russian exile Hermann; living a life of luxury in Berlin when he meets a poverty-stricken double who inspires him to opt out of life and start anew, under a different name. Set in the 1930s, Fassbinder explores questions of theatricality and identity against the ominous background of the Nazis ascending to power.
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