The American Friend

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.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime

Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller

Crew: Wim Wenders (Director), Wim Wenders (Screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (Novel), Renée Gundelach (Executive Producer), Joachim von Mengershausen (Producer), Jürgen Knieper (Original Music Composer)

Country: France, Germany

Language: EnglishDeutschFrançais

Studio: Road Movies, Wim Wenders Productions, Les Films du Losange, WDR, Bavaria Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Runtime: 125 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Jun 24, 1977

IMDb: 3.838

Keywords:dying and death, friendship, paris, france, based on novel or book, hitman, leukemia

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