Amerikanische Soldat, Der [The American Soldier] (1970) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DVDrip | German | Subtitle: english, spanish, brazilian-portuguese (srt), french, dutch (idx/sub) | 1:20:36 | 640 x 416 | PAL (25fps) | XviD | MP3 @ 128kbps | 699 MB
Genre: Drama
DVDrip | German | Subtitle: english, spanish, brazilian-portuguese (srt), french, dutch (idx/sub) | 1:20:36 | 640 x 416 | PAL (25fps) | XviD | MP3 @ 128kbps | 699 MB
Genre: Drama
The American Soldier (1970), Fassbinder's homage to gangster movies and film noir, is alternately playful and deeply disturbing.
The story of Ricky (Karl Scheydt), a professional killer, who returns to his German home-town from America, where he fought for the US in Vietnam. Three renegade detectives, unknown to their chief, hire Ricky to kill the people behind a crime wave which, humiliatingly, the police have been unable to stop. During his mission, Ricky visits family, meets up with friends, and drops by old haunts, while murdering his targets with stone-cold resolve. After finishing his kills, including a final one caused by the lead detective's jealousy, Ricky finds himself in a shoot-out with his illicit employers. Some people consider the climax the most startling of any Fassbinder picture.
Cast: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Marius Aicher, Margarethe von Trotta, Ulli Lommel, Katrin Schaake, Ingrid Caven, Eva Ingeborg Scholz.