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The American Friend (1977)
Directed by Wim Wenders
Drama, Thriller, Crime · 2h 05m
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Cast
Dennis Hopper
Tom Ripley
Bruno Ganz
Jonathan Zimmermann
Lisa Kreuzer
Marianne Zimmermann
Gérard Blain
Raoul Minot
Nicholas Ray
Andrew Pogash Derwatt
Samuel Fuller
The American
Peter Lilienthal
Marcangelo
D
Daniel Schmid
Samuel Igraham
Sandy Whitelaw
Doctor in Paris
Jean Eustache
Friendly Man
Lou Castel
Rodolphe
A
Andreas Dedecke
Daniel Zimmermann
Crew
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Screenplay
- Wim Wenders
- Novel
- Patricia Highsmith
- Director of Photography
- Robby Müller
- Original Music Composer
- Jürgen Knieper
- Editor
- Peter Przygodda
- Producer
- Joachim von Mengershausen, Wim Wenders
Details
- Original title
- Der amerikanische Freund
- Release date
- 1977-06-24
- Runtime
- 2h 05m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German
- Countries
- France, Germany, United States of America
- Production
- Road Movies, Wim Wenders Productions, Les Films du Losange, WDR, Moli Films, Filmverlag der Autoren