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The American Friend

7/10
Release Date 1977-06-24
Runtime 125 minutes
Genres Drama, Thriller
Stars Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray
Directors Jürgen Knieper, Peter Przygodda, Joachim von Mengershausen, Wim Wenders, Renée Gundelach

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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