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The Turning Point

52% | Jan 20, 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.

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Sylvester Groth
Mark Niebuhr
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Fred Düren
General Eisensteck
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Matthias Günther
Hauptsturmführer
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Klaus Piontek
Major Lundenbroich
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Roman Wilhelmi
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Eberhard Geick
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Frank Beyer
Director
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Hermann Kant
Novel
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Günther Fischer
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Rita Hiller
Editor
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Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Writer

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