The Turning Point
Jan 20 1983
•2h 42m
•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.
Cast
See allSylvester Groth
Mark Niebuhr
Fred Düren
General Eisensteck
Matthias Günther
Hauptsturmführer
Klaus Piontek
Major Lundenbroich
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