The American Friend is a movie directed by Wim Wenders in 1977 and based on the book Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1974. The movie features Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Andreas Dedecke, David Blue, and others.
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Storyline
Tom Ripley is a wealthy American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he appears at auctions to bid on forged paintings produced by an accomplice to drive up the price. At one of these auctions, he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer who is dying of leukemia.
Movie vs Book
Year
1977
Minutes
128
Movie Rate
7.40
Source: IMDb
Movie
The American Friend
Original title: Der amerikanische Freund
Director: Wim Wenders
Country: West Germany
Year: 1977
Length: 2h8m
Year
1974
Pages
288
Book Rate
7.76
S: Goodreads
Book
Ripley's Game
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Country: USA
First published in: 1974
Length: 288 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Ripley
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Liliana Cavani
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“I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.”
GIA COPPOLA (Filmmaker)
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