End of the Game (1976)
Directed by Maximilian Schell
Genres - Drama, Spy Film |
Sub-Genres - Police Detective Film, Psychological Thriller |
Release Date - May 12, 1975 (USA - Unknown), May 12, 1976 (USA) |
Run Time - 103 min. |
Countries - Germany, Italy |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Actor Maximillian Schell functioned as coproducer and director of End of the Game. Conversely, director Martin Ritt is the leading actor in this existentialist crime story. Ritt plays Hans Barlach, a Swiss police inspector who has spent 30 years trying to pin the murder of the woman he loved on Richard Gastmann, an "untouchable" industrialist (Robert Shaw). When Barlach's assistant Donald Sutherland is killed while trying to get the goods on Gastmann, the inspector puts idealistic detective Walter Tschantz (Jon Voight) on the case. Jacqueline Bisset costars as Anna Crawley Sutherland's girl friend, who attempts to solve the case on her own. Author Friedrich Durrenmatt, long fascinated with the intangible aspects of Guilt and Innocence, wrote the novel (The Judge and His Hangman) upon which End of the Game is based.
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commissioner, confusion, corpse, criminal, curiosity [inquisitiveness], death, detective, industrialist, inspection, investigation, investigator, life, love, man, murder, police, private-detective, Swiss [nationality], terminal-illness, veteran [military], woman, killing
