Return from the Ashes

Year: 1965

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: English

Director: J. Lee Thompson

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After surviving a Nazi concentration camp, Dr. Michele Wolf returns to her Paris home at the war’s end, hoping for peace. Unaware that her charismatic husband, gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has begun an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi, her hopeful daydream quickly turns into a nightmare.

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