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The American Friend (German: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 neo-noir film written and directed by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. It stars Dennis Hopper as career-criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an ...
Sep 28, 1977 · The American Friend: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain. Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Wim Wenders
- 1977-09-28
A film by Wim Wenders based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, starring Dennis Hopper as a middleman between a French gangster and a German picture framer. Ebert praises the film's style and atmosphere, but criticizes its plot and characters.
American expatriate Tom (Dennis Hopper) treats Hamburg, Germany, like it's the Wild West and makes a living by hawking art forgeries, but decides to take part in a murder plot for extra...
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- Dennis Hopper
- Wim Wenders
- Bavaria Film
Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond.
- Tom Ripley
A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
Dennis Hopper stars as Patricia Highsmith's dastardly Ripley (THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, RIPLEY'S GAME) in Wim Wenders' THE AMERICAN FRIEND. At an exhibition in Hamburg, Ripley's...
