The American Friend

  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • Crime
6/24/1977
125
NR

Storyline

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.

Director:
Wim Wenders
Writer:
Wim Wenders
    • dying and death
    • new york city
    • friendship
    • husband wife relationship
    • paris, france
    • based on novel or book
    • hitman
    • munich, germany
    • male friendship
    • terminal illness
    • leukemia
    • dying man
    • murder
    • mafia
    • tape recorder
    • exploding car
    • art dealer
    • hamburg, germany
    • art auction
    • west germany
    • blood disease

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    Cast

    • Dennis Hopper
      Tom Ripley
    • Bruno Ganz
      Jonathan Zimmermann
    • Lisa Kreuzer
      Marianne Zimmermann
    • Gérard Blain
      Raoul Minot
    • Nicholas Ray
      Derwatt
    • Samuel Fuller
      The American
    • Peter Lilienthal
      Marcangelo
    • Daniel Schmid
      Igraham
    • Sandy Whitelaw
      Doctor in Paris
    • Jean Eustache
      Friendly Man
    • Lou Castel
      Rodolphe
    • Andreas Dedecke
      Daniel Zimmermann
    • David Blue
      Allan Winter
    • Rudolf Schündler
      Gantner
    • Gerty Molzen
      Old Lady
    • Heinz Joachim Klein
      Dr. Gabriel

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