Der amerikanische Freund
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.
- Zhanri: Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Studio: Road Movies, Wim Wenders Productions, Les Films du Losange, WDR
- Fjalen: dying and death, new york city, friendship, husband wife relationship, paris, france, based on novel or book, hitman, munich, germany, male friendship, terminal illness, leukemia, dying man, murder, mafia, tape recorder, exploding car, art dealer, hamburg, germany, art auction, west germany, blood disease
- Cast: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
