End of the Game (1975)

Robert Shaw: Richard Gastmann

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• Richard Gastmann : Another year, your doctor says. That is, if he can operate on Thursday.

  Hans Bärlach : Another year.

  Richard Gastmann : Your last year, Hans. Why waste it on me?

  Hans Bärlach : One day I'm going to convict you for your crimes.

  Richard Gastmann : You can't let go of it, can you? You let it chew up your guts until it has chewed up your guts.

  Hans Bärlach : The Barlach's always had poor stomachs.

  Richard Gastmann : Keep on churning, Old Man; keep on churning. Still hung up on right and wrong. One day you're going to realise, there is none.

  Hans Bärlach : Have you ever seen your victims? I could show you pictures. How many people died because of you? Fifty, Sixty...?

  Richard Gastmann : I could show you...

  Hans Bärlach : ...a hundred, thousand?

  Richard Gastmann : ...earthquakes, plagues, famine, victims more mutilated than any explosions could make. Has to be done, Old Man. It has to be done.

  Hans Bärlach : If you don't do it, somebody else will?

  Richard Gastmann : Quite right. Anyway, I sleep now much better than i used to.

  [looking out the window] 

  Richard Gastmann : Take the mob down there; pull ten out put ten back - doesn't make any difference.

  Hans Bärlach : You think you're God.

  Richard Gastmann : Only his humble servant, Old Man, only his humble servant.

  Hans Bärlach : You don't believe in God?

  Richard Gastmann : Oh, yes. I think religion's very good for children; Jesus, suffering on the cross. I don't know anything better. Look, Hans, we made a bet together. I won. You lost.

  Hans Bärlach : The result of that bet was death.