Return from the Ashes

Nov 16, 1965

1h 45m

★ 6.1

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.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

The Mirisch Company

Orchard Productions

Return from the Ashes Trailers

Cast

Stanislaw Pilgrin

Maximilian Schell

Fabienne Wolf

Samantha Eggar

Dr. Michele Wolf

Ingrid Thulin

Dr. Charles Bovard

Herbert Lom

Claudine

Talitha Pol

Manager

Vladek Sheybal

Receptionist

Viviane Ventura

Jacques Cey

Jacques Brunius

Andre Charisse

Danièle Noël

Arnold Diamond

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