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The Turning Point (1983) Der Aufenthalt

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
The Turning Point (1983) Der Aufenthalt

The Turning Point (1983)
DVDRip | AVI | 640 x 480 | XviD @ 1473 Kbps | 97 min | 1,15 Gb
Audio: German MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama, War

This story of mistaken identity was taken from the experiences of writer Hermann Kant when he was a 19-year-old soldier in the German Wehrmacht. In the film, the soldier is drafted into the army just after the siege of Stalingrad in 1943 and is taken prisoner in Poland, where a mother has accused him of being the SS man who killed her daughter earlier in the war. While in prison he is given dangerous work in the prison yard but survives intact. Eventually, the soldier hears about the extermination camps of Lublin, Auschwitz and other sites, and has changed his feelings toward the army. Meanwhile, his case is coming up for review and even a jail companion from his same army unit is afraid to come to his defense because of possible repercussions.

This film was withdrawn from competition at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival because of objections to its content.

IMDB - 7 wins

I was lucky to catch this movie at a university mini-festival of East German films. As far as I know it was never commercially released in the U.S. Based on a fictionalized memoir, it concerns a teenage German soldier captured in Poland at the end of W.W.II and falsely accused of war crimes. It's an extra-ordinary and complex exploration of the concepts of guilt, innocence, betrayal, justice, and self-deception. It's not a movie about good guys and bad guys, winners and losers. Rather, it concerns issues of both personal and institutional responsibility during war and its aftermath, and it's immensely moving. Not flashy cinema on the surface, but so beautifully written and acted that it stands out as one of the most haunting war films I've seen in the last several years (far more so than the recent jingoistic Hollywood blockbusters). It poses difficult, complex questions about human behavior during war, and offers no simple answers.
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The Turning Point (1983) Der Aufenthalt


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