The American Soldier

The American Soldier is a 1970 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Karl Scheydt.

Plot

Ricky, a German-American Vietnam veteran, 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