Return from the Ashes

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

6.1(31)19651h 45m

ThrillerDrama

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.

Director

J. Lee Thompson

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Cast

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

Andre Charisse

Danièle Noël

Arnold Diamond

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

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 st...