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Return from the Ashes
UNITED KINGDOM · 1965

Return from the Ashes

J. Lee Thompson
post-war trauma infidelity identity and deception family betrayal Holocaust survival
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Synopsis

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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