Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
Elenco: John Malkovich , Dougray Scott , Ray Winstone , Lena Headey , Chiara Caselli , Uwe Mansshardt , Hanns Zischler , Paolo Paoloni , Lutz Winde , Emidio La Vella , Evelina Meghnagi , Maurizio Lucà , Sam Blitz , Nikolaus Dutsch , Wilfried Zander , Hendrikje Fitz , Francesca Ventura , Jurij Rosstalnyj , Ronnie Paul , Thomas Bloem , Oliver Hanisch , Sönke Korries , René Lay .