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HanWay Films
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Featuring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Lisa Kreuzer, Peter Lilienthal, Sandy Whitelaw, Lou Castel
Wim Wenders pays loving homage to rough-and-tumble Hollywood film noir with The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game. Dennis Hopper oozes quirky menace as an amoral American art dealer who entangles a terminally ill German everyman, played by Bruno Ganz, in a seedy criminal underworld as revenge for a personal slight—but when the two become embroiled in an ever-deepening murder plot, they form an unlikely bond. Filmed on location in Hamburg and Paris, with some scenes shot in grimy, late-seventies New York City, Wenders’s international breakout is a stripped-down crime story that mixes West German and American film flavors, and it features cameos by filmmakers Jean Eustache, Samuel Fuller, and Nicholas Ray.
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Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Interview, Deleted Scenes, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- Audio commentary from 2002 featuring Wim Wenders and actor Dennis Hopper
- New interview with Wim Wenders
- New interview with actor Bruno Ganz
- Deleted scenes with audio commentary by Wim Wenders
- Trailer
- Insert featuring an essay by author Francine Prose
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Producer: Jason Altman
Producer: Michael Boland