Movie

The Turning Point

★ 4.9/10 · 8 votes 1983 1h 42m Released

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

Sylvester Groth Mark Niebuhr Fred Düren General Eisensteck M Matthias Günther Hauptsturmführer Klaus Piontek Major Lundenbroich Roman Wilhelmi Ohnehals Hans-Uwe Bauer Obergefreiter Fenske