The American Friend
American expatriate Tom (Dennis Hopper) treats Hamburg, Germany, like it's the Wild West and makes a living by hawking art forgeries, but decides to take part in a murder plot for extra cash. All Tom has to do to earn his share is find a potential assassin who won't do any talking, and he has the perfect man: Jonathan (Bruno Ganz), a dying cancer patient desperate to leave his family an inheritance. Jonathan begrudgingly accepts, but he's no gunman, and the scheme quickly goes sour.
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Wim Wenders
German filmmaker
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist
Bruno Ganz
Swiss actor
Nicholas Ray
American film director
Dennis Hopper
American actor
Samuel Fuller
American film director
Rudolf Schündler
German actor
Jean Eustache
French filmmaker
Robby Müller
Dutch cinematographer
Peter Lilienthal
German film director
Daniel Schmid
Swiss theatre director
Lou Castel
Actor
Jürgen Knieper
German film score composer
Gérard Blain
French actor
Sandy Whitelaw
Actor
Dan Schmid
American musician
Renée Gundelach
Executive producer
Lisa Kreuzer
German television actress
Derwatt
Tom Ripley
Fictional character
