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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Sylvester GrothMark Niebuhr
Fred DürenGeneral Eisensteck
Klaus PiontekMajor Lundenbroich
Roman WilhelmiOhnehals
Hans-Uwe BauerObergefreiter Fenske
Günter JunghansCast
Krzysztof Chamiec
Gustaw Lutkiewicz
Michael GerberCastExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Eberhard Geick
- Director
- Frank Beyer
- Writer
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Editor
- Rita Hiller