THE AMERICAN FRIEND [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1977
• Genre: Crime, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenders's international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray.;
• Cast: Dennis Hopper, Rosemarie Heinikel, Adolf Hansen, Axel Schiessler, Satya De La Manitou, Heinrich Marmann, Heinz Joachim Klein, Gerty Molzen, Rudolf Schündler, Stefan Lennert, David Blue, Andreas Dedecke, Enzo Robutti, Lou Castel, Sandy Whitelaw, Daniel Schmid, Peter Lilienthal, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Gérard Blain, Lisa Kreuzer, Bruno Ganz, Jean Eustache, Wim Wenders, Patricia Highsmith
• Director: Wim Wenders
• Runtime: 2:06
• Company: Bavaria Film, Filmverlag Der Autoren, Les Films du Losange, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Wim Wenders Stiftung, HanWay Films Limited, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie