Der amerikanische Freund
Wim Wenders
Jonathan lives in Hamburg with his wife and daughter, apparently he has an incurable blood disease. His encounter with the American Tom Ripley will drastically change his life. A mysterious Frenchman, Tom's friend, offers him a large sum of money to kill a stranger. Jonathan accepts and despite himself gets caught up in an spiral of events that is difficult to escape from...
With : Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Jean Eustache, Lou Castel
Screenplay : Wim Wenders (d'après le roman de Patricia Highsmith " Ripley's Game ")
Image : Robby Müller
Sound : Martin Müller, Peter Kaiser
Editing : Peter Przygodda
Music : Jürgen Knieper
Screenplay : Wim Wenders (d'après le roman de Patricia Highsmith " Ripley's Game ")
Image : Robby Müller
Sound : Martin Müller, Peter Kaiser
Editing : Peter Przygodda
Music : Jürgen Knieper
Production : Road Movies, Filmproduktion GMBH Wim Wenders, Les Films du Losange, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Distribution: Tamasa Diffusion
Distribution: Tamasa Diffusion
Not long after moving the US, Wim Wenders made a film half way between German auteur cinema and American action cinema with The American Friend. It was the first time that Wenders had worked with Bruno Ganz, who plays a peaceful German, Jonathan Zimmerman. From Patricia Highsmith's book Wenders kept the dubious relationship between Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz. "Suddenly ripped out of his old-fashioned shop in Hamburg, with death on his heels, haunted by the idea of the void, he finds himself propelled into concrete, glass, airports, luxury trains, savage customs" (Jacques Siclier). Plunged into a brutal world, Bruno Ganz's character acts like an automaton, wandering through the corridors of a hostile and impersonal underground.