Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- German
- Country
- France, Germany, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- dying and death
- new york city
- friendship
- husband wife relationship
- paris
- france
- based on novel or book
- hitman
- munich
- germany
- male friendship
- terminal illness
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Dennis Hopper
Tom Ripley
Bruno Ganz
Jonathan Zimmermann
Lisa Kreuzer
Marianne Zimmermann
Gérard Blain
Raoul Minot
- Nicholas Ray — Derwatt
- Samuel Fuller — The American
- Peter Lilienthal — Marcangelo
- Daniel Schmid — Igraham
- Sandy Whitelaw — Doctor in Paris
- Jean Eustache — Friendly Man
- Lou Castel — Rodolphe
- Andreas Dedecke — Daniel Zimmermann
- David Blue — Allan Winter
- Rudolf Schündler — Gantner
- Gerty Molzen — Old Lady
- Directed
- Wim Wenders
- Written
- Wim Wenders
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 457 ratings
- Studio
- Road Movies, Wim Wenders Productions, Les Films du Losange, WDR, Moli Films, Filmverlag der Autoren
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