Return from the Ashes poster

Return from the Ashes

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

6.2(32)19651h 45m1

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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English
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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR16 Nov 1965
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremierePrince Charles Cinema2 Feb 1966
    • TheatricalRated X3 Feb 1966

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Return from the Ashes was released on 16 November 1965.

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    CinemaSerf

    3/26/2023

    7/10

    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…

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