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End of the Game (1975)

End of the Game poster
Original title
Der Richter und sein Henker
Directed by
Maximilian Schell
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Germany, Italy
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a colleague's murder in rural Switzerland. The case pulls him into a cat-and-mouse game with a cunning criminal.

mysterioustensemelancholicdeliberatebleakgrittysuspensefulcerebral

What happens

End of the Game (German: Der Richter und sein Henker) is a 1975 DeLuxe Color German mystery thriller film directed by Maximilian Schell, and starring Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt and Robert Shaw. Co-written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the film is an adaptation of his 1950 crime novella The Judge and His Hangman (German: Der Richter und sein Henker). Dürrenmatt also appears in the film, while Donald Sutherland plays the role of the corpse of Schmied. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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