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The American Soldier

“Trained to be the best”

1970 · 1 h 20 min
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DramaCrime

Cast

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Plot

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and becomes a hired killer for the police, in the style of Hollywood gangster films.

Sinekatalog’s take

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's gangster film, with Karl Scheydt and Elga Sorbas, is cool and stylized, a bleak homage to American B pictures.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.5 / 10 (2,090 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.