The Turning Point

The Turning Point (1983)

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.

Director: Frank Beyer

Casts

	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
	Alexander van Heteren as
	Horst Hiemer as
	Günter Junghans as
	Krzysztof Chamiec as
	Gustaw Lutkiewicz as
	Michael Gerber as
	Danuta Kowalska as

Crew