Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Release:
June 1977
Production:
Road Movies, Wim Wenders Productions, Les Films du Losange, WDR, Wim Wenders Stiftung
Cast:
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Sandy Whitelaw, Jean Eustache, Lou Castel, Andreas Dedecke, David Blue, Rudolf Schündler, Gerty Molzen, Heinz Joachim Klein, Satya De La Manitou, Axel Schiessler, Adolf Hansen, Rosemarie Heinikel, Stefan Lennert, Heinrich Marmann, Enzo Robutti, Wim Wenders
Tags:
dying and death, new york city, friendship, husband wife relationship, paris, france, based on novel or book, hitman, munich, germany, male friendship, terminal illness, leukemia, dying man, murder, mafia, tape recorder, exploding car, art dealer, hamburg, germany, art auction, west germany, blood disease
