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 appeared in the film, and Donald Sutherland played the role of the corpse of Schmied.

Plot

In 1948 Istanbul, a young Hans Brlach accepts a bet from his associate Richard Gastmann that Gastmann can commit a crime in front of him Brlach cannot prove. Shortly after, he witnesses the woman he loves (Rita Calderoni) fall from a bridge into the bay. Convinced Gastmann had pushed her but indeed unable to prove it, Brlach leaps into the water too late to save her as Gastmann disappears.