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The American Friend (German: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 neo-noir film written and directed by Wim Wenders, adapted from the 1974 novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. It stars Dennis Hopper as career-criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an ...
Sep 28, 1977 · The American Friend: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain. Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Exploring the influence of Hopper's Ripley over the protagonist (Ganz's Jonathan Zimmerman) and the role of American cinematic style in an international sense, Wenders takes bold steps to touch...
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Roger Ebert January 01, 1977. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There's something cheerfully perverse about filming a thriller and then tossing out the parts that would help it make sense, but Wim Wenders has a certain success with the method in "The American Friend."
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game.
Aug 10, 2018 · Brief Synopsis. A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
Directed by Wim Wenders • 1977 • Germany. Starring Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz. Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with THE AMERICAN FRIEND, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Ripley’s Game.”
