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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 ...
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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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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 cash. All ...
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- Dennis Hopper
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Bruno Ganz. Dennis Hopper. Lisa Kreuzer. Gerard Blain. Samuel Fuller. Photos & Videos. View All. Film Details. Also Known As. American Friend, Amerikanische Freund, Den amerikanske vännen, Der Amerikanische Freund, L'ami américain. Genre. Adaptation. Drama. Foreign. Thriller. Release Date. Jan 1977. Premiere Information. not available. Country.
- Wim Wenders
- Bruno Ganz
The key directors of New German Cinema were Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Reinhard Hauff, and Wim Wenders. Of them all, Wenders is probably the most accessible, the most straightforward, and -- he claims it of himself -- the most "Americanized."
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.
