What is The American Friend / Alice in the Cities about?

Name: The American Friend / Alice in the Cities
Released: 2011-11-20

Co-Presented by AFI FEST 2011: Double Feature: THE AMERICAN FRIEND, 1977, 125 min. Dir. Wim Wenders. When mild-mannered frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) learns he is dying, his art smuggling friend Ripley (Dennis Hopper) comes up with a diabolical idea: Jonathan should become a mob hit man in order to make money for his estate. With Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller. ALICE IN THE CITIES, 1974, 110 min. Dir Wim Wenders. At an airport beset with delays, journalist Philip Winter (Rudiger Vogler) is booking a flight home to his native Germany from the United States in an attempt to distract himself from a particularly clingy bout of writer's block, when he meets and befriends fellow German Lisa and her nine-year-old daughter Alice (Yella Rotlander). Philip agrees to temporarily look after Alice when the three share a hotel room for the evening, but it quickly becomes apparent that the mother has no immediate plans of returning for her child.

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What is The American Friend / Alice in the Cities about?: Co-Presented by AFI FEST 2011: Double Feature: THE AMERICAN FRIEND, 1977, 125 min. Dir. Wim Wenders. When mild-mannered frame maker Jonathan (Bruno Ganz) learns he is dying, his art smuggling friend Ripley (Dennis Hopper) comes up with a diabolical idea: Jonathan should become a mob hit man in order to make money for his estate. With Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller.

ALICE IN THE CITIES, 1974, 110 min. Dir Wim Wenders. At an airport beset with delays, journalist Philip Winter (Rudiger Vogler) is booking a flight home to his native Germany from the United States in an attempt to distract himself from a particularly clingy bout of writer's block, when he meets and befriends fellow German Lisa and her nine-year-old daughter Alice (Yella Rotlander). Philip agrees to temporarily look after Alice when the three share a hotel room for the evening, but it quickly becomes apparent that the mother has no immediate plans of returning for her child.