"Fassbinder's homage to American gangster movies. Ricky, i professional killer, is hired by 3 Munich policemen upon his return to Germany from America. He visits family, meets up with friends, and drops by old haunts, all the while carrying out his kills without hesitation of emotion. Upon completion of all his assignments, Ricky finds himself in a shoo-out with the cops who hired him."
"In this virtuoso deconstruction of gangster movie conventions, a Vietnam veteran becomes a hit man for the Munich police."
"Après avoir fait la guerre du Vietnam, Ricky, un gangster américain, retourne à Munich où il a passé son enfance. Connu des services de police, il se fait engager pour liquider quelques criminels....Ce film montre la violence régie par l'Etat comme plus ambiguë et plus excessive encore que celle des gangsters eux-même. Fassbinder dira au sujet de son film : "Au bout du compte, les deux font leur métier, un sale métier"."
"Fassbinder's homage to American gangster movies. Ricky, a professional killer, is hired by 3 Munich policemen upon his return to Germany from America. He visits family, meets up with friends, and drops by old haunts, all the while carrying out his kills without hesitation of emotion. Upon completion of all his assignments, Ricky finds himself in a shoot-out with the cops who hired him."
"Fiction. Drame. Trois policiers engagent Ricky, un criminel et vétéran du Vietnam, afin d'assassiner des escrocs qu'ils sont incapables de punir. Avec Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Margarethe von Trotta."
"German-born Ricky returns to Munich from America after the after serving in Vietnam and is hired as a killer."
"In an homage to American gangster movies, this film tells the story of a soldier who returns from America to his home in Berlin to become a successful contract killer, not as a gangster, but as a police officer."
"Fassbinder described his film as 'a study of a pefect killer.' German-born Ricky returns to Munich from America (and service in Vietnam) and is hired as a professional killer by three police officers. Ricky carries out his assignments without knowledge or emotion and the final shoot-out is one of the most startling of Fassbinder's off-beat endings."
"Ricky, a professional killer, is hired by 3 Munich policemen upon his return to Germany from America. He visits family, meets up with friends, and drops by old haunts, all the while carrying out his kills without hesitation of emotion. Upon completion of all his assignments, Ricky finds himself in a shoo-out with the cops who hired him."
"Américain d'origine allemande, Ricky, criminel et vétéran du Viet-Nam, est employé par des policiers pour assassiner des escrocs.--[Allocine.com]."
"Fassbinder described his film as 'a study of a perfect killer.' German-born Ricky returns to Munich from America (and service in Vietnam) and is hired as a professional killer by three police officers. The film is constructed as a collage of references to American genres and Fassbinder's own and others' work: names, characters, situations and visual details evoke other films, from Fassbinder's Gods of the Plague and the subsequent Fear Eats the Soul to Sam Fuller's Pickup on South Street. Fassbinder's unmistakably personal style ('a certain melancholy-gloomy atmospheric') holds this pastiche together."
"Story about a charismatic hit man (Ricky) who always wears a gun bulging from his shoulder holster, sports a soft fedora hat and white suit. Ricky carries out his assignments without knowledge or emotion and the final shoot-out is one of the most startling of Fassbinder's off-beat endings."
"Fassbinder's homage to American gangster movies. Ricky, a professional killer, is hired by 3 Munich policemen upon his return to Germany from America. He visits family, meets up with friends, and drops by old haunts, all the while carrying out his kills without hesitation of emotion. Upon completion of all his assignments, Ricky finds himself in a shoo-out with the cops who hired him."
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