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Jul 23, 1971 · The American Soldier: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm. Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops.
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.
The German-born American GI Ricky (Karl Scheydt) returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and stylistic flourishes, and features an audaciously bonkers final shot and memorable turns from many ...
Known as the poet of the American Revolution, Philip Freneau was influenced by both the political situation of his time and the full, active life he led. He attended Princeton University, where James Madison was his roommate, and planned to become a minister.
The American Soldier is a hired gunman who kills some people for not entirely clear reasons. It's a noir, yes, but almost surreal.
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The titular character is a half-German, half-American soldier who, after returning from Vietnam, visits his mother in Munich and becomes a contract killer hired by policemen to take out criminals. Fassbinder originally wrote the part for Günther Kaufmann, but…
