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The American Friend
(1977)
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| Dennis Hopper | ... | ||
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Jonathan Zimmermann
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Lisa Kreuzer | ... |
Marianne Zimmermann
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Gérard Blain | ... |
Raoul Minot
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Nicholas Ray | ... | |
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Samuel Fuller | ... |
Der Amerikaner
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Peter Lilienthal | ... |
Marcangelo
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Igraham
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Sandy Whitelaw | ... |
Arzt in Paris
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Jean Eustache | ... |
Freundlicher Mann
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Rodolphe
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Andreas Dedecke | ... | |
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David Blue | ... |
Allan Winter
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Stefan Lennert | ... |
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Rudolf Schündler | ... |
Gantner
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Storyline
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. Written by J. Spurlin
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(West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
El amigo americano See more »Box Office
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DEM 3,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Derwatt: Who is it?
Tom Ripley: It's Ripley.
Derwatt: The door is open.
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Bruno Ganz carried a real gun during the scene in which he assassinates a man in the train station, because, humorously enough, the filmmakers could not afford a fake gun. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Derwatt: Who is it?
Tom Ripley: It's Ripley.
Derwatt: The door is open.
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