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The American Friend

 1977
 128 minutes (2 hrs 08 mins)
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Directed by

Wim Wenders

Starring

Dennis Hopper · Bruno Ganz · Lisa Kreuzer · Gerard Blain · Nicholas Ray · Samuel Fuller

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Release dates

US release date US release
26th September 1977
France release date France release
28th September 1977
Japan release date Japan release
11th October 1977

Certificates

US
Not Rated

18

M

16

12

VM14

16

15

K-16

K-16

12

M/16

15

14

Total grosses

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The American Friend movie review  Roger Ebert Tue, 31st October 2017

The American Friend: Little Lies and Big Disasters  The Criterion Collection Tue, 12th January 2016

Wim Wenders’s High Plains Grifter (Published 2016)  nytimes.com Fri, 12th February 2016