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The Turning Point

52 %|Jan 20, 1983|Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Eberhard Geick
Director of Photography
Frank Beyer
Director
Hermann Kant
Novel
Günther Fischer
Music
Rita Hiller
Editor
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Writer