# Der stille Amerikaner (2002)

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**Original title**: *The Quiet American*
**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Romance, Thriller, Drama, War
**Directed by**: Phillip Noyce
**Written by**: Robert Schenkkan, Christopher Hampton
**Starring**: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Đỗ Thị Hải Yến, Tzi Ma, Rade Šerbedžija, Robert Stanton

> *In war, the most powerful weapon is seduction.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Monsoon streets of Saigon glisten under neon. A weary correspondent watches his translator’s shadow lengthen across the wall as an American bureaucrat’s polished shoes click past. He gives the names of the wrong men to the wrong hands.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, paranoid

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