The Cinema and its Double Rainer Werner Fassbinders Despair Revisited (2011)

In the spring of 1977, Germanys most famous and most prolific director Rainer Werner Fassbinder began to shoot his first film in English: DESPAIR. Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the films international cast was headed by screen icons Dirk Bogarde and Andréa Ferréol. The featurelength documentary THE CINEMA AND ITS DOUBLE chronicles the making of DESPAIR, from adapting the novel to the films premiere at the Cannes film festival in 1978. New interviews with screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard, director o