The enigmatic American Tom Ripley, main character of several novels by writer Patricia Highsmith, drags an innocent German frame maker into a world of intrigue and death. Thus, Wenders constructs an absorbing thriller about lives at stake, in which traps are inevitable. The director also makes a criticism of the Americanization of European cinema.
Der Amerikanische Freund
1977
128 min.
Fiction
Germany
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
Robby Muller
Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gerard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Lou Castel
Jurgen Knieper
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