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The Turning Point

The Turning Point

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 20, 1983

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Drama

User Score

52%

Original Title

Der Aufenthalt

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Frank Beyer

Description

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.