The Turning Point
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4.9In 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.
Released: 1983-01-20102 minDir: Frank BeyerDrama
Cast
- Sylvester Groth as Mark Niebuhr
- Fred Düren as General Eisensteck
- Matthias Günther as Hauptsturmführer
- Klaus Piontek as Major Lundenbroich
- Roman Wilhelmi as Ohnehals
- Hans-Uwe Bauer as Obergefreiter Fenske
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Key dates
- Published
- 4 May 1984
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- German Democratic Republic
- Original language
- German
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Frank Beyer
- Screenwriter
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Cast member
- Horst Giese
- Production company
- DEFA
- Narrative location
- Lublin
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1983 films1983 German films1983 German-language filmsBabelsberg Studio filmsEast German filmsFilms based on German novelsFilms directed by Frank BeyerFilms set in 1945Films set in 1946Films set in PolandFilms set in WarsawFilms whose director won the Heinrich Greif PrizeFilms whose writer won the Heinrich Greif Prize