"0075675" . . . "The American Friend"@en . . . "1977-06-24Z"^^ . "7620.0"^^ . . "Der amerikanische Freund"@en . . "The American Friend (German: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 film by Wim Wenders, loosely adapted from the novel Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. The film is of the neo-noir genre, and features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann, a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin."@en . . .