The American Soldier
1970 film
- Karl Scheydt
- Elga Sorbas
- Jan George
- Hark Bohm
- Marius Aicher
Production
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Antiteater
Release date
- 9 October 1970 (1970-10-09) (International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg)
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The American Soldier (German: Der amerikanische Soldat) is a 1970 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Karl Scheydt.
Plot
Ricky, a German-American Vietnam veteran, takes a job as a hired assassin on behalf of three renegade policemen to do away with a number of undesirables in Munich.
Cast
- Karl Scheydt as Ricky
- Elga Sorbas as Rosa
- Jan George as Jan
- Hark Bohm as Doc
- Marius Aicher as Cop
- Margarethe von Trotta as Chambermaid
- Ulli Lommel as Gypsy
- Katrin Schaake as Magdalena Fuller
- Ingrid Caven as Bar Singer
- Eva Ingeborg Scholz as Ricky's mother
- Kurt Raab as Ricky's brother
- Irm Hermann as Whore
- Gustl Datz as Chief of police
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Franz Walsch
References
- ^ "Der amerikanische Soldat". filmportal.de. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
External links
- The American Soldier at IMDb
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Works by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
- Katzelmacher (1969)
- Gods of the Plague (1970)
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
- The American Soldier (1970)
- Whity (1971)
- Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
- Effi Briest (1974)
- Fear of Fear (1975)
- Fox and His Friends (1975)
- Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975)
- Satan's Brew (1976)
- Chinese Roulette (1976)
- Germany in Autumn (1978)
- Despair (1978)
- In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
- The Third Generation (1979)
- Lili Marleen (1981)
- Lola (1981)
- Veronika Voss (1982)
- Querelle (1982)
- The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
- Rio das Mortes (1971)
- Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972–1973)
- Jail Bait [de] (1972)
- World on a Wire (1973)
- Martha (1974)
- I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
- The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, series)
- BRD Trilogy
- Enfant Terrible (2020 biopic)
- Fassbinder's Women (2000 documentary)
- Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors (2023 book)
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