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Writer:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

9 October 1970 (West Germany) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

Ricky is a cold-blooded German-American contract killer. After serving in Vietnam he returns to his... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

Experimental and Justifiable Plagiarism more (14 total)


Cast

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Karl Scheydt ... Ricky
Elga Sorbas ... Rosa von Praunheim
Jan George ... Jan
Hark Bohm ... Doc
Marius Aicher ... Polizist
Margarethe von Trotta ... Zimmermädchen
Ulli Lommel ... Zigeuner
Katrin Schaake ... Magdalena Fuller
Ingrid Caven ... Sängerin
Eva Ingeborg Scholz ... Rickys Mutter
Kurt Raab ... Rickys Bruder
Irm Hermann ... Hure
Gustl Datz ... Polizeipräsident
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The American Soldier (USA)
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Runtime:

80 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:R21 (cut) | UK:15 (original rating) | UK:18 (re-rating) (2007) | Finland:K-16 | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Antiteater more


Fun Stuff

Quotes:

Ricky: W as in war, A as in Alamo, L as in Lenin, S as in science fiction, C as in crime, and H as in Hell. more

Movie Connections:

Spin off Angst essen Seele auf (1974) more

Soundtrack:

So Much Tenderness more


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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Experimental and Justifiable Plagiarism, 10 December 2004
8/10
Author: Daniel Hayes (dphayes@dal.ca) from Halifax, NS

The European pseudo-noirs of the 60s and 70s reaped the benefits of being able to skip a number of steps in the writing process simply by adopting styles and themes from previous films. What was left was to add one's own spin to an existing story. Fassbinder was a genius at taking a style and making it his own, not in a superficially Tarantino-ish way, but in a way that was at once equally unique and dependent, retaining the benefits of a style and pushing it even further into his own territory.

In this sense, this film is an early experiment: a war veteran turned contract killer stoically carrying out his duties, but in a post-war German environment and with homoerotic undertones galore. But it's remarkably coherent and compelling considering how little the plot gives away explicitly. Indeed, this would become one of his trademarks.

4 out of 5 - An excellent film

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