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The American Friend

Cast

Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain View All


Crew

Wim Wenders (Screenplay), Wim Wenders (Director) View All

Release: Jun. 26th, 1977
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes
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.
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Takoma11
When a terminally ill man named Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) snubs him at an auction, Ripley gets revenge by convincing the man his disease is worsening and manipulating him into becoming a hitman for some of his nastier associates.
Rockatansky
The movie's most thrilling sequence (shot both on a moving train and also in the studio, with the footage later assembled with immaculate timing) is the hit on the train, where the hero, eventually assisted by Ripley, has to devise and perform a pair of murders in a crowded, cramped, moving train an....
Joel
Wenders is known for his particular way in dealing with characters and their surroundings.


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