The American Soldier

1970 film

Karl Scheydt
Elga Sorbas
Jan George
Hark Bohm
Marius Aicher

CinematographyDietrich LohmannEdited byThea EymeszMusic byPeer Raben

Production
company

Antiteater

Release date

9 October 1970 (1970-10-09) (International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg)

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Running time

80 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGermanBudgetDEM 280,000 (estimated)

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

Filmography

Films

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)

Television

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)

Related

BRD Trilogy
Enfant Terrible (2020 biopic)
Fassbinder's Women (2000 documentary)
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors (2023 book)

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