Presentation Ceremony
of the Lumière Award
to Wim Wenders

Friday, 20 October at 7.30pm
 
at the Amphithéatre-Centre de Congrès
(50 quai Charles de Gaulle Lyon 6e)

In the presence of special guests

 
Followed by the screening of the film:
The American Friend (1977, 2h06) in restaured copy.

Thanks to Films du Losange.

The masterpiece, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel,
features one of the most memorable appearances of Tom Ripley on the screen!

The Americain Friend
by Wim Wenders (1977, 2h02)

4K restoration by the Wim Wenders Foundation with the support of the FFA- German Federal Film Board. Distribution: Les Films du Losange

Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz), a modest picture framer, lives in Hamburg with his wife and son. Terminally ill, his time is already running out. One day, a Frenchman (Gérard Blain) arrives and proposes that Jonathan execute a man in France for the sum of 250,000 marks. But who is this man and how did he know that Jonathan was ill? The worried framer wonders about his recent meeting with Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper), an art dealer who travels back and forth between New York and Hamburg.