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Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

8.0 74 mins Documentary   2022
Director(s): Roman Hüben

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife's diary, we get closer to this man surrounded by mystery.

Casts of Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

Hanna Schygulla

as Hilde Jary

Todd Haynes

as Self

Douglas Sirk

as Self (archive footage)

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