Return from the Ashes (1965)

★ 6.1 1h 45m IMDb

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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Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell as Stanislaw Pilgrin Died 2014 · Vienna, Austria Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was st...
Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar as Fabienne Wolf Died 2025 · Hampstead, London, England, UK Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (March 5, 1939 — October 15, 2025) was an Oscar nominated English film, television and voice actress who appeared in Doctor Dolittle..
Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Thulin as Dr. Michele Wolf Died 2004 · Sollefteå, Västernorrlands län, Sweden Ingrid Lilian Thulin (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd tɵˈliːn]; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish film actress. Thulin was born in Sollefteå, Ångermanland, northern Sweden, the daughter...
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom as Dr. Charles Bovard Died 2012 · Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru; 11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 193...
Talitha Pol
Talitha Pol as Claudine Died 1971 · Java, Indonesia Talitha Dina Getty was born Talitha Dina Pol (18 October 1940 – 11 July 1971). She was a Dutch actress, socialite, and model who was regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s. She lived much of her a...
Vladek Sheybal
Vladek Sheybal as Manager Died 1992 · Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland Vladek Sheybal (born Władysław Rudolf Z. Sheybal; 12 March 1923 – 16 October 1992) was a Polish character actor, singer and director of both television and stage productions..

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CinemaSerf 7/10 Mar 26, 2023
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.

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