The American Soldier | |
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Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
Screenplay by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
Produced by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
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Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
Edited by | Thea Eymesz |
Music by | Peer Raben |
Production company | Antiteater |
Release date | 9 October 1970 (International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg)[1] |
Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Budget | DEM 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 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.