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.
Title | The Turning Point |
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Year | 1983 |
Genre | Drama |
Country | Germany, East Germany |
Studio | DEFA |
Cast | Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Klaus Piontek, Roman Wilhelmi, Hans-Uwe Bauer |
Crew | Eberhard Geick (Director of Photography), Frank Beyer (Director), Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Writer), Rita Hiller (Editor), Hermann Kant (Novel), Günther Fischer (Music) |
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Release | Jan 20, 1983 |
Runtime | 102 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 5.20 / 10 by 6 users |
Popularity | 0 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | Deutsch, Polski |