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WIM WENDERS COLLECTION - THE AMERICAN FRIEND

By Wim WENDERS

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Thriller - Completed 1977

- Year of production
- 1977
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- GERMANY, FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 127 mn
- Director(s)
- Wim WENDERS
- Writer(s)
- Wim WENDERS
- Cast
- Dennis HOPPER, Bruno GANZ, Lisa KREUZER
- ISAN
- 0000-0000-AB2F-0000-4-0000-0000-P
- EIDR
- 10.5240/CFEC-ABDE-2D85-F0AD-D29B-J
- Producer(s)
- Wim WENDERS
- Synopsis
- Today a cult film, THE AMERICAN FRIEND is based on the suspense novel Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith and won the German Critics Prize in 1977. Picture-framer Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) believes he is dying from a blood-disease. Jonathan’s cold-hearted American friend, displaced cowboy Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) decides to use his illness to his advantage, manipulating Jonathan into carrying out a murder contract. A hypnotic noir.