Return from the Ashes (1965)

16/11/1965 (GB)•Thriller, Drama•1h 45m

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The water warm... the champagne chilled... the music soft... then the daydream ends... and the nightmare begins!

Overview

A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.

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Maximilian Schell
Stanislaw Pilgrin
Samantha Eggar
Fabienne Wolf
Ingrid Thulin
Dr. Michele Wolf
Herbert Lom
Dr. Charles Bovard
Talitha Pol
Claudine
Vladek Sheybal
Manager
Viviane Ventura
Receptionist
Jacques Cey
Jacques Brunius

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A review by CinemaSerf

7.0

Written by CinemaSerf on Mar 26, 2023

Maximilian Schell is good in this as the pretty odious "Pilgrin". He is an intellectual philanderer whom, upon the Nazi invasion of Poland, marries the wealthy Jewish "Mischa" (Ingrid Thulin). She is incarcerated in a concentration camp, presumed dead, but after the war meets her husband again only to discover that has taken up with her step-daughter Samantha Eggar ("Fabienne") and that he will stop at very little to get hold of what is left of her fortune. It's odd to see a film about Nazis and their horrendous treatment of the Jews and for that not to be the most toxic element of a film. Tha...