Film

The Turning Point

1983 · 1h 42m · Drama

IMDb

7.4

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.

Sylvester Groth

Mark Niebuhr

Fred Düren

General Eisensteck

Matthias Günther

Hauptsturmführer

Klaus Piontek

Major Lundenbroich

Roman Wilhelmi

Ohnehals

Hans-Uwe Bauer

Obergefreiter Fenske

Alexander van Heteren

Horst Hiemer

Günter Junghans

Krzysztof Chamiec

Gustaw Lutkiewicz

Michael Gerber

Danuta Kowalska

• Frank BeyerDirector
• Wolfgang KohlhaaseWriter
• Hermann KantNovel
• Eberhard GeickDirector of Photography
• Rita HillerEditor

Release date

January 20, 1983

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

12

Genres

Drama