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 von Praunheim 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
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