Return from the Ashes

Return from the Ashes

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

NR 1965 · 105 min · ★ 6.2 · Thriller, Drama

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.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson · Written by Julius J. Epstein

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