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The Turning Point

4.6 102 mins Drama   1983
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme  
Director(s): Frank Beyer

Release Date: 20 Thu, Jan 1983

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.

Casts of The Turning Point

Sylvester Groth

as Mark Niebuhr

Fred Düren

as General Eisensteck

Matthias Günther

as Hauptsturmführer

Klaus Piontek

as Major Lundenbroich

Roman Wilhelmi

as Ohnehals

Hans-Uwe Bauer

as Obergefreiter Fenske

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