Return from the Ashes
The water warm... the champagne chilled... the music soft... then the daydream ends... and the nightmare begins!
1965 | 105m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | J. Lee Thompson |
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| Writer: | Julius J. Epstein, Hubert Monteilhet |
| Staring: |
| 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: | Nov 16, 1965 |
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| Director: | J. Lee Thompson |
| Writer: | Julius J. Epstein, Hubert Monteilhet |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller |
| Keywords | gigolo |
| Production Companies | The Mirisch Company, Orchard Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Christopher Challis | Director of Photography |
| Russell Lloyd | Editor |
| Charles Blair | Production Manager |
| Kip Gowans | Assistant Director |
| J. Lee Thompson | Director |
| Julius J. Epstein | Screenplay |
| Hubert Monteilhet | Novel |
| John Dankworth | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| J. Lee Thompson | Producer |
| Cecil F. Ford | Associate Producer |
| Lewis J. Rachmil | Executive Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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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.