The Turning Point
Plot
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.
At a glance
- Year
- 1983
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- FSK 12
- Genre
- Drama
- Original language
- German
- Production countries
- XG
- Director
- Frank Beyer
- Cast
- Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Klaus Piontek, Roman Wilhelmi