''14 Days to Life'' (german: 14 Tage lebenslänglich) is a 1997 German thriller film directed by
Roland Suso Richter
Roland Suso Richter (born January 7, 1961 in Marburg) is a German film director and producer.
Biography
Richter was born in Marburg and lived there until making his Abitur in 1980 at the local Elisabethschule. Wanting to pursue a film career, ...
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Plot
Young lawyer Konrad von Seidlitz is celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, the daughter of justice minister Friedemann Volkerts. He hasn't paid his parking fines for two years, and as a publicity stunt to boost his career, he insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. While inside, he behaves arrogantly, believing that his knowledge of the system will protect him. He manages to make a few enemies, however, and one day prior to his release, two hundred grams of cocaine are found in his cell during a search. Instead of being released after two weeks as planned, he is sentenced to two years without parole for drug trafficking as a result of a plot by his law firm partner Axel Häring, who is having an affair with Seidlitz's fiancée.
Seidlitz now discovers the harsh reality of everyday prison life. He is humiliated and his reputation destroyed. As he gradually learns how to adapt to his new situation, he befriends another prisoner, Viktor Czernetzky, who helps him uncover the intrigue and restore his reputation. Seidlitz escapes his confinement with the help of the prison doctor, among others, but later returns voluntarily in order to secure the support of his fellow prisoners for the fight against Häring. A showdown takes place in court between the former law firm partners and Häring is sentenced to a five-year prison term. Seidlitz believes he has left the nightmare behind him; however, his connections to the criminal underworld eventually catch up with him. He is forced into a hopeless life and death situation and must save his friend Czernetzky by committing murder.
Cast
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Kai Wiesinger
Kai Wiesinger (born 16 April 1966) is a German actor.
Life and work
Wiesinger began taking private acting lessons as a teenager. After his civil service, he became an acting student in Munich. He has been active on German television and in film ...
as Konrad von Seidlitz
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Michael Mendl
Michael Mendl (born Michael Sandrock; 20 April 1944) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1975. He is best known internationally for his role in '' Downfall'', the 2004 movie about Adolf Hitler's final days inside the ...
as Viktor Czernetzky
* Katharina Meinecke as Dr. Annika Hofer
* Axel Pape as Axel Häring
* as Cornelia Volkerts
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Jürgen Schornagel
Jürgen Schornagel (born 1939) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1966.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1939 births
Living people
German male film actors
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- Kaschinski
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Axel Milberg
Axel Theodor Klaus Milberg (born 1 August 1956) is a German actor. His most prominent role is that of ''Tatort'' investigator Klaus Borowski.
Selected filmography
* ''After Five in the Forest Primeval'' (1995)
* ' (1996)
* ''Father's Day'' (1 ...
- Roland Kleinschmidt
* as Ramon
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Detlef Bothe
Detlef Bothe (born 9 December 1957) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by popula ...
as Rudi
* as Schröder
* as Sergeant Major Kaiser
* as Kruse
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Peter Fitz
Peter Fitz (8 August 1931 – 10 January 2013) was a German stage and film actor.
Biography
Fitz completed an apprenticeship at the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in the 1950s. In the 1960s, engagements at the Schaus ...
as prison warden
* as Justice Minister Friedemann Volkerts
* Ulrich Bähnk as prosecutor
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0118529
1997 thriller films
1990s prison films
German prison films
1990s German films