The Turning Point ( 1983 )

Overview

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.

Top Cast

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