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American Friend (The)

Country: Germany, Language: German | English, 125 mins

Original Title

Der Amerikanische Freund
  • Director: Wim Wenders
  • Writer: Patricia Highsmith; Wim Wenders
  • Producer: Renée Gundelach; Margaret Ménégoz

CGiii Comment

Hopper plays Ripley - so far removed from the suave sophisticate of other incarnations.

Wenders directs grittily and totally ignores Ripley's sexuality - a strange way of doing it.

It's watchable - but, lacks the necessary sophistication.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.

Cast & Characters

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley;
Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann;
Lisa Kreuzer as Marianne Zimmermann;
Gerard Blain as Raoul Minot;
Nicholas Ray as Derwatt;
Samuel Fuller as The American Mobster;
Peter Lilienthal as Marcangelo;
Daniel Schmid as Ingraham;
Jean Eustache as Friendly Man;
Rudolf Schundler as Gantner;
Sandy Whitelaw as Doctor in Paris;
Lou Castel as Rodolphe;
Ismael Alonso as Ignatius;
David Blue as Allan Winter;
Andreas Dedecke as Daniel