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->"Es war nur Zufall. (It was just chance.)"
Der Richter und sein Henker (The Judge and his Hangman/Executioner) is a 1950 novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It sees the Swiss police force investigating the murder of Schmied, one of their officers. Unbeknownst to the police force however, the crime was committed by one of their own, Detective Tschanz, who murdered him out of jealousy, and a desire to steal his life. Commissioner Bärlach knows this, and is determined to use this knowledge to his own ends.
The book follows Tschanz's efforts to frame someone else for his crime, while Bärlach seeks to use Tschanz to deliver justice on his old nemesis, Gastmann, whom he's spent 40 years trying to for his various crimes. With less than a year to live, Bärlach decides that the only thing he can do is to use Tschanz to frame Gastmann for Schmied's murder.
!! ''The Judge and his Hangman'' contains examples of:
* BilingualBackfire: Any of the French-speakers trying and failing to speak German. It's comprehensible, but they've apparently never heard of conjugated verbs.
* BilingualBonus: The fact that Tschanz killed Schmied isn't explicitly stated right away, but if you happen to know English, then it is hinted at, as it is said that he was killed by "Zufall" (Chance).
* DubNameChange: The English version of the film is called "End of the Road".
* ManipulativeBastard: One possible interpretation of Bärlach.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Tschanz gets a brief few seconds of it in TheMovie.
* ModestyBedsheet: Tschanz gets one in the film, in the form of some clothes he's holding to his groin. At least until he gets up and throws them away.
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->"Es war nur Zufall. (It was just chance.)"
Der Richter und sein Henker (The Judge and his Hangman/Executioner) is a 1950 novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It sees the Swiss police force investigating the murder of Schmied, one of their officers. Unbeknownst to the police force however, the crime was committed by one of their own, Detective Tschanz, who murdered him out of jealousy, and a desire to steal his life. Commissioner Bärlach knows this, and is determined to use this knowledge to his own ends.
The book follows Tschanz's efforts to frame someone else for his crime, while Bärlach seeks to use Tschanz to deliver justice on his old nemesis, Gastmann, whom he's spent 40 years trying to for his various crimes. With less than a year to live, Bärlach decides that the only thing he can do is to use Tschanz to frame Gastmann for Schmied's murder.
!! ''The Judge and his Hangman'' contains examples of:
* BilingualBackfire: Any of the French-speakers trying and failing to speak German. It's comprehensible, but they've apparently never heard of conjugated verbs.
* BilingualBonus: The fact that Tschanz killed Schmied isn't explicitly stated right away, but if you happen to know English, then it is hinted at, as it is said that he was killed by "Zufall" (Chance).
* DubNameChange: The English version of the film is called "End of the Road".
* ManipulativeBastard: One possible interpretation of Bärlach.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Tschanz gets a brief few seconds of it in TheMovie.
* ModestyBedsheet: Tschanz gets one in the film, in the form of some clothes he's holding to his groin. At least until he gets up and throws them away.
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->"Es war nur Zufall. (It was just chance.)"
Der Richter und sein Henker (The Judge and his Hangman/Executioner) is a 1950 novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It sees the Swiss police force investigating the murder of Schmied, one of their officers. Unbeknownst to the police force however, the crime was committed by one of their own, Detective Tschanz, who murdered him out of jealousy, and a desire to steal his life. Commissioner Bärlach knows this, and is determined to use this knowledge to his own ends.
The book follows Tschanz's efforts to frame someone else for his crime, while Bärlach seeks to use Tschanz to deliver justice on his old nemesis, Gastmann, whom he's spent 40 years trying to for his various crimes. With less than a year to live, Bärlach decides that the only thing he can do is to use Tschanz to frame Gastmann for Schmied's murder.
!! ''The Judge and his Hangman'' contains examples of:
* BilingualBackfire: Any of the French-speakers trying and failing to speak German. It's comprehensible, but they've apparently never heard of conjugated verbs.
* BilingualBonus: The fact that Tschanz killed Schmied isn't explicitly stated right away, but if you happen to know English, then it is hinted at, as it is said that he was killed by "Zufall" (Chance).
* DubNameChange: The English version of the film is called "End of the Road".
* ManipulativeBastard: One possible interpretation of Bärlach.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Tschanz gets a brief few seconds of it in TheMovie.
* ModestyBedsheet: Tschanz gets one in the film, in the form of some clothes he's holding to his groin. At least until he gets up and throws them away.
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I was stupid, because of Zufall.
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I\'m not sure about spoiler tagging. The fact that Tschanz did it isn\'t really made obvious right away in the book, but I had it spoiled for me by my teacher, because it\'s hard to explain the themes of the book without knowing it.
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->"Es war nur Zufall. (It was just chance.)"
Der Richter und sein Henker (The Judge and his Hangman/Executioner) is a 1950 novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It sees the Swiss police force investigating the murder of Schmied, one of their officers. Unbeknownst to the police force however, the crime was committed by one of their own, Detective Tschanz, who murdered him out of jealousy, and a desire to steal his life. Commissioner Bärlach knows this, and is determined to use this knowledge to his own ends.
The book follows Tschanz's efforts to frame someone else for his crime, while Bärlach seeks to use Tschanz to deliver justice on his old nemesis, Gastmann, whom he's spent 40 years trying to for his various crimes. With less than a year to live, Bärlach decides that the only thing he can do is to use Tschanz to frame Gastmann for Schmied's murder.
!! ''The Judge and his Hangman'' contains examples of:
* BilingualBonus: The fact that Tschanz killed Schmied isn't explicitly stated right away, but if you happen to know English, then it is hinted at, as it is said that he was killed by "Zufall" (Chance).
* ForeignLanguageFailure: Any of the French-speakers trying and failing to speak German. It's comprehensible, but they've apparently never heard of conjugated verbs.
* ManipulativeBastard: One possible interpretation of Bärlach.
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->"Es war nur Zufall. (It was just chance.)"
Der Richter und sein Henker (The Judge and his Hangman/Executioner) is a 1950 novel by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. It sees the Swiss police force investigating the murder of Schmied, one of their officers. Unbeknownst to the police force however, the crime was committed by one of their own, Detective Tschanz, who murdered him out of jealousy, and a desire to steal his life. Commissioner Bärlach knows this, and is determined to use this knowledge to his own ends.
The book follows Tschanz's efforts to frame someone else for his crime, while Bärlach seeks to use Tschanz to deliver justice on his old nemesis, Gastmann, whom he's spent 40 years trying to for his various crimes. With less than a year to live, Bärlach decides that the only thing he can do is to use Tschanz to frame Gastmann for Schmied's murder.
!! ''The Judge and his Hangman'' contains examples of:
* BilingualBonus: The fact that Tschanz killed Schmied isn't explicitly stated right away, but if you happen to know English, then it is hinted at, as it is said that he was killed by "Zufall" (Chance).
* ForeignLanguageFailure: Any of the French-speakers trying and failing to speak German. It's comprehensible, but they've apparently never heard of conjugated verbs.
* ManipulativeBastard: One possible interpretation of Bärlach.
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