The American friend

Duration: 127 mi

Year Published: 1977

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: 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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