在这部绝望剧情/奇幻片中,上世纪30年代，一家德国巧克力厂的老板是俄国人，面对婚姻和事业双重触礁，万念俱灰。他幻想脱离自己的生活，如同灵魂出窍似的从旁观察自己。当他看到一个街头流浪汉时，那人在他眼里跟他自己长得一模一样。为了“互换身份”，他杀死了对方。
本片跟法斯宾德其他作品有很大差异，他采用了知名编剧的剧本，而且还是改编自纳博科夫的小说。精彩对白似乎集中在影片的前三分之一。影片大胆、俗气，曾遭到广泛的恶评。
Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.
几个段子。导演说。
