Return from the Ashes Poster

Return from the Ashes (1965)

NR Nov 16, 1965 Thriller, Drama 1h 45m
61%
User Score
6.9/10

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.

J. Lee Thompson
Director
Julius J. Epstein
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell

Stanislaw Pilgrin
Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar

Fabienne Wolf
Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Thulin

Dr. Michele Wolf
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom

Dr. Charles Bovard
Talitha Pol
Talitha Pol

Claudine
Vladek Sheybal
Vladek Sheybal

Manager
Viviane Ventura
Viviane Ventura

Receptionist
Jacques Cey
Jacques Cey
Jacques Brunius
Jacques Brunius

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Return from the Ashes (1965) Original Trailer [HD]
Return from the Ashes (1965) Original Trailer [HD]
Trailer
Return from the Ashes (1965) Opening Sequence..mov
Return from the Ashes (1965) Opening Sequence..mov
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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on March 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. That accolade must go to Schell, and to the really unlikeable Eggar - a pair who really do rather deserve each there. The film is just too long, there are too many sagging points and the score from jazz ...

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