Justice (1993 film)
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100% Rotten Tomatoes Duration Director Hans W. Geisendorfer Screenplay Hans W. Geisendorfer | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Initial release 1993 Running time 1h 46m Story by Friedrich Durrenmatt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (novel), Hans W. Geissendorfer Cast Maximilian Schell (Isaak Kohler), Thomas Heinze (Felix Spät), Anna Thalbach (Helene Kohler), Norbert Schwientek (Stüssi-Leupin), Hark Bohm (Prof. Winter), Ulrike Kriener (Ilse Freude)Similar movies Related Hans W Geisendorfer movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Justice (German: Justiz) is a 1993 German-language film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer. It was an international co-production between Germany and Switzerland. Based on the 1985 novel The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the film was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 66th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.
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A matter of justice 1993
Plot
Isaak Kohler (Maximilian Schell) coolly walked up to a man everyone assumed was his friend and shot him dead. This took place in front of dozens of witnesses in a busy restaurant, and there was no question about his guilt. What he never revealed was his motive. He has been in prison serving a twenty-year sentence ever since. Perhaps in order to ease his daughter's pain about the incident, he has hired a legal representative to arrange for him to receive a retrial. He is still unforthcoming about his reasons for committing the crime, and invites the struggling lawyer to make something up. This crime and courtroom drama is based on a novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose works are highly respected within the German-speaking intellectual community but whose appeal has proved difficult to translate.
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