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Return from the Ashes

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

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.

Release Date : 1965-11-16

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : The Mirisch CompanyOrchard Productions

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Stanislaw Pilgrin

Original Name : Maximilian Schell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fabienne Wolf

Original Name : Samantha Eggar

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Michele Wolf

Original Name : Ingrid Thulin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Charles Bovard

Original Name : Herbert Lom

Gender : Male

Character Name : Claudine

Original Name : Talitha Pol

Gender : Female

Character Name : Manager

Original Name : Vladek Sheybal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Receptionist

Original Name : Viviane Ventura

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Jacques Cey

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Jacques Brunius

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Andre Charisse

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Danièle Noël

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Arnold Diamond

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-03-26

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 legend John Dankworth drags it down, too; but it does have a decent story, is well produced and the acting is effective too.