The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ’Despair’ Revisited (2011)

In the spring of 1977, Germany’s 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 film’s international cast was headed by screen icons Dirk Bogarde and Andréa Ferréol. The feature-length documentary THE CINEMA AND ITS DOUBLE chronicles the making of DESPAIR, from adapting the novel to the film’s premiere at the Cannes film festival in 1978. New interviews with screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard, director o