The American Friend

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.

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  Dennis Hopper

  Tom Ripley
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  Bruno Ganz

  Jonathan Zimmermann
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  Lisa Kreuzer

  Marianne Zimmermann
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  Gérard Blain

  Raoul Minot
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  Nicholas Ray

  Derwatt
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  Samuel Fuller

  The American
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  Peter Lilienthal

  Marcangelo
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  Daniel Schmid

  Igraham
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  Sandy Whitelaw

  Doctor in Paris
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  Jean Eustache

  Friendly Man