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The DLCL Film Series Presents: "The American Friend" by Wim Wenders
Date
Wed September 25th 2013, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Location
Building 200, Room
305
305
The American Friend (: Der amerikanische Freund) is a 1977 film by , loosely adapted from the novel by . The film is of the genre, and features as career criminal and as Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer whom Ripley into becoming an .
Though primarily based on (1974), the film also uses elements, uncredited, of , which was later in 2005. The source novel was cinematically adapted a second time in 2002 as .