Mario Brunello
Mario Brunello( born 1960) is an Italian cellist and musician.
The turning point in his artistic life was the 1986 victory of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Isabel Mirrow Brown
Isabel Mirrow Brown( June 9, 1928- August 2014) was an American ballerina.
A fictionalized version of her life was documented in the 1977 film" The Turning Point", in which she was portrayed by Shirley Maclaine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
Fridrikh Ermler
Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (born Vladimir Markovich Breslav; 13 May 1898 in Rēzekne – 12 July 1967 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter.
He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (in 1941, twice in 1946, and in 1951).
After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czarist army in 1917 and soon took part in the October revolution on the side of the Bolshevists.
Captured and tortured by the White army, he only became a full party member at the end of the Civil War.
From 1923 to 1924 Ermler studied at the Cinema Academy.
In 1932 he took part in creating one of the first Soviet talkies – the movie "VstrechnyThe Counterplan").
He also was one of the founders of the Creative Association KEM (together with E. Ioganson).
He was one of the main figures in the Soviet propaganda movie industry whose main priority was glorifying Stalin and his supposedly successful leadership in the country's progress.
A memorial plaque was placed on the house in Leningrad where he lived from 1930 to 1962.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Christophe Point
Christophe Point( born May 26, 1965 in Nantes) is a French retired football defender.
Point spent his entire playing career of 14 years at Stade Malherbe Caen.
Jerry Jost
Jerry Jost( died December 30, 2014) was an American sound engineer.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film" The Turning Point".
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
The Turning Point (1945 film)
The Turning Point  is a 1945 Soviet, Russian-language war film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov.
The film was one of the earlier Palme d'Or winners of 1946.
Runtime: 108 min.
It was produced by GOSKINO at Kinostudiya Lenfilm (Lenfilm Studio), distributed in the USA by Artkino Pictures, and restored in 1967 at Lenfilm Studio.
Working title - "General of the Army"

Question: Where was the director of film The Turning Point (1945 Film) born?
Answer: Rēzekne