Return from the Ashes

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

Return from the Ashes — Plot

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
• November 16, 1965
• Runtime
• 105 min
• Genres
• Thriller, Drama
• Director
• J. Lee Thompson

Return from the Ashes — Cast

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