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The American friend

Title
The American friend [motion picture] / Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin), Les Films du Losange (Paris), Wim Wenders Produktion (Munich), Westdeutschen Rundfunk (Cologne).
Publication
New York : New Yorker, 1977.

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Additional Authors
  • Ganz, Bruno
  • Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010
  • Wenders, Wim
Description
4 film reels (127 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
Summary
Jonathan Zimmerman, a quiet picture framer living in Hamburg, believes that he may be dying from a blood disease. Ripley, a cowboy wheeler-dealer who flits about Europe, finds out about the artisan's illness and uses him as a pawn for French gangster Raoul Minot. Wenders explores the themes of rootlessness and the tenuousness of personality while paying homage to the American thriller. Quotes, cliches, allusions and analogies recall the work of Hitchcock and refer to such films as Johnny Guitar and Taxi driver. (Circulates)
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Note
  • In English and German with English subtitles.
  • Based on the novel, Ripley's dream by Patricia Highsmith.
Credits (note)
  • Director, writer, Wim Wenders; photography, Robby Müller; music, Jürgen Knieper.
Performer (note)
  • Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Gérard Blain, Wim Wenders.
Title
The American friend [motion picture] / Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin), Les Films du Losange (Paris), Wim Wenders Produktion (Munich), Westdeutschen Rundfunk (Cologne).
Imprint
New York : New Yorker, 1977.
Credits
Director, writer, Wim Wenders; photography, Robby Müller; music, Jürgen Knieper.
Cast
Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Gérard Blain, Wim Wenders.
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Ganz, Bruno, actor.
Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010, actor.
Wenders, Wim, film director.
Wenders, Wim, screenwriter.
Branch Call Number
M16 4073 A
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