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!

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Release Date

11/16/1965

Runtime

105 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A post-war psychological thriller where the horrors of the Holocaust give way to domestic betrayal and psychological manipulation. This is a film about the vulnerability of returning to a life that no longer exists, and the claustrophobia of discovering you're trapped by those closest to you.

Mood

TenseUnsettlingDread-soakedParanoid

Themes

BetrayalIdentitySurvivalMemoryPower

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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