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The American Friend

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The American Friend
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NR,2hrs 7min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Release:
1977
Director:
Wim Wenders
Distributor:
Anchor Bay
Starring:
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer  ...more
Synopsis: Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the work of American painter Derwatt (Nicholas Ray), who has feigned his own death to increase the value of his paintings. While auctioning this work in Berlin, he meets art restorer Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Wenders homage to the American noir includes cameos by two of the genre's most significant figures, Nicholas Ray and Sam Fuller, and stars actor and director Dennis Hopper, whose life and career perhaps most perfectly embody the idiom's celebration of self-destruction. The doppelgänger motif, which threads through Highsmith's work, perhaps most familiar from Hitchcock's version of Strangers on a Train ... Full Review
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Dennis Hopper
Tom Ripley
Bruno Ganz
Jonathan Zimmermann
Lisa Kreuzer
Marianne Zimmermann
Gérard Blain
Raoul Minot
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