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The American Friend

1977, Movie, NR, 126 mins

The American Friend: Review

AMERICAN FRIEND, THE | DER AMERIKANISCHE FREUND

Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz are superb in Wim Wenders's THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a gripping Hitchockian thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith. Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz), a Hamburg picture-framer and painting-restorer who's suffering from an incurable blood disease, meets Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper), an American who sells forged paintings in Germany and knows about Jonathan's illness. Because of a perceived slight when the two were introduced, Ripley spreads a r... read more leave a comment

The American Friend: Cast & Details

Year: 1977
Rated NR

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Cast
Bruno Ganz: Jonathan Zimmermann
Dennis Hopper: Tom Ripley
Gerard Blain: Raoul Minot
Lisa Kreuzer: Marianne Zimmermann
Nicholas Ray: Prokasch, aka Derwatt
Samuel Fuller: The American

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