- HD 1080
- Runtime: 125m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: de
- Country: France, Germany
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray
- keywords: dying and death, friendship, paris, france, based on novel or book, hitman, leukemia
- Production_studio: Road Movies, Wim Wenders Productions, Les Films du Losange, WDR, Bavaria Film, Filmverlag der Autoren
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The American Friend is featured in the top rankings of 1977
- #23 in Top Drama Movies of 1977
- #4 in Top Crime Movies of 1977
- #4 in Top Thriller Movies of 1977
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
