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Title The American friend / a film by Wim Wenders
Published [Australia] : Road Movies Filmproduction : Madman Entertainment (distributor), 1977

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 MELB  791.4372 Wen/Afr  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet
Series Directors suite
Director's suite.
Summary Story about a Hamburg picture framer who is perfectly ordinary except that he is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris. DVD
Notes Originally released as a motion picture in 1977
Based on the novel "Ripley's Game" by Patricia Highsmith
Special features: Audio commentary by writer/director Wim Wenders and star Dennis Hopper ; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer; talent bios
Credits Directed by Wim Wenders; photography, Robby Muller; edited by Peter Przygodda; music, Jurgen Knieper
Cast Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gerard Blain
Notes Censorship classification: M
DVD region 4; colour recording system: PAL
In German and English with optional English subtitles
Subject Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 -- Film and video adaptations
Genre/Form Feature films.
Video recordings.
Author Wenders, Wim.
Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010.
Blain, GĂ©rard.
Kreuzer, Lisa.
Ganz, Bruno.
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