The American Friend
Synopsis
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
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Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : Les Films du Losange
- Foreign production companies : Wim Wenders Produktion, Road Movies Filmproduktion, ARD / WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Film exports/foreign sales : Reverse Angle Pictures
- French distribution : Les Acacias
Full credits (9)
- Screenwriter : Wim Wenders
- Director of Photography : Robby Muller
- Music Composer : Jürgen Knieper
- Assistant directors : Emmanuel Clot, Philippe Schwartz
- Editor : Peter Przygodda
- Foreign producers : Barbet Schroeder, Wim Wenders
- Author of original work : Patricia Highsmith
- Voice : Maurice Dorléac, Bernard Murat, Sady Rebbot
- Co-producer : Margaret Menegoz
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Thriller, Drama, Film noir
- Production language : German, English
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Germany, France)
- Production year : 1977
- French release : 28/09/1977
- Runtime : 2 h 6 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 46873
- Visa issue date : 21/09/1977
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
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