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The American Soldier is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Karl Scheydt
The American Soldier (1970)
Der amerikanische Soldat
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Add to a movie listThe American Soldier (German: Der amerikanische Soldat) is a 1970 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Karl Scheydt as Ricky, a German-American Vietnam veteran, who takes a job as a hired assassin on behalf of three renegade policemen to do away with a number of undesirables in Munich.
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À Munich, trois policiers ont enrôlé Ricky, un tueur à gages américain, mais natif de Munich, qui rentre du Vietnam. Ricky doit éliminer plusieurs personnes.Actors
Karl Scheydt
(Ricky)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(Franz Walsch (uncredited))
Irm Hermann
(Whore)
Hark Bohm
(Doc)
Kurt Raab
(Ricky's Brother)
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