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Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
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Directed by: Wim Wenders, Robby Müller, Emmanuel Clot
Produced by: Renée Gundelach, Joachim von Mengershausen, Margaret Ménégoz
Composed by: Jürgen Knieper
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