The American Soldier () 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.

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

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1970 films

1970s avant-garde and experimental films

1970 crime films

German black-and-white films

Films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Films set in Munich

German gangster films

German avant-garde and experimental films

1970s German-language films

West German films

1970s German films

The American Soldier