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Jul 23, 1971 · The American Soldier: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm. Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops.
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- Drama
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1971-07-23
The American Soldier (German: Der amerikanische Soldat) is a 1970 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Karl Scheydt.
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The German-born American GI Ricky (Karl Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and stylistic flourishes, and features an audaciously bonkers final shot and memorable turns from many ...
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- Karl Scheydt
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Antiteater-X-Film
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The American Soldier is a simple tale of a German-American Vietnam veteran, Ricky, who returns to his native Munich as a hired killer, carrying out his assignments with mechanical precision.
