The Turning Point

(1983)

★ 4.9 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1983

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: East Germany

Director: Frank Beyer

Cast: Сильвестр Грот, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Klaus Piontek, Роман Вильгельми, Ханс-Уве Бауэр, Alexander van Heteren, Horst Hiemer, Günter Junghans, Krzysztof Chamiec

Plot

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.