The American Friend
The American Friend
The American Friend is a 1977 France, Germany Drama, Thriller, Crime It stars Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain. 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.
- Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
- Country: France, Germany
- Cast: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Sandy Whitelaw, Jean Eustache, Lou Castel, Andreas Dedecke, David Blue, Rudolf Schündler, Gerty Molzen