The Turning Point

Year: 1983

Runtime: 102 mins

Language: German

Director: Frank Beyer

Drama

In autumn 1945, nineteen‑year‑old Mark Niebuhr is arrested for murder and sent to a POW camp in Warsaw. He maintains his innocence despite long solitary confinement. When placed with Polish criminals he is targeted, and later endures a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. The film is based on real events from Hermann Kant’s novel.

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