The Turning Point

01/20/1983

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1hr 42min

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Drama

STORY

In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Sylvester Groth
  • Fred Düren
  • Matthias Günther
  • Klaus Piontek
  • Roman Wilhelmi

    Director

  • Frank Beyer

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • DEFA

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • East Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • Polish