Der amerikanische Freund (1977)

Directors

Wim Wenders

Cast

Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Andreas Dedecke, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Rudolf Schündler

The story

Tom Ripley is a rich American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he drives up auction prices of supposedly newly found—but really newly produced—paintings by an artist who has faked his own death. At an auction he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer who has framed one of the fakes in good faith and is dying of leukemia.

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