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The Turning Point

The Turning Point (Der Aufenthalt)

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  • East Germany
  • 1983
  • · 102m

Director Frank Beyer
Cast Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther, Klaus Piontek, Roman Wilhelmi, Hans-Uwe Bauer
Genre 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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