Return from the Ashes
Date: 1965
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Production Company: Orchard Productions, The Mirisch Corporation
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Ingrid Thulin, Samantha Eggar, Herbert Lom
Location(s): Hertfordshire (Studio)
Region(s): France, South East R-Z
Storyline:
Marrying a rich Jewish doctor in occupied Paris, a gigolo schemes to inherit her estate after the war.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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During the winter of the Liberation of France in 1946, a train carries Dr. Michele Wolf towards Paris. Possibly the only location outside the studio, this appears to be a genuine French locomotive pulling a train through darkened countryside.
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The camera moves across the frontage of a bar on a snow covered street.
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A taxi approaches the Hotel de L'Europe. Wikipedia tells us that the film was shot on the backlot at Borehamwood in Hertfordshire.
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Going under the mane of Madame Robert, Dr. Michele Wulf (Ingrid Thulin) gets out of the cab and pays the Driver before entering the hotel where her identity is questioned.
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In her hotel room, Dr. Wolf recalls her romantic involvement with chess master Stanislaus Pilgrin before the invasion of France.
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Stanislaus looks out of his apartment window to see an Elderly Woman being taken away by occupying Troops.
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A Nazi flag blows in the breeze as the camera tilts down the Town Hall.
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Dr. Michele Wolf and Stanislaus Pilgrin (Maximilian Schell) emerge from the building as a married couple.
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Getting out of a lorry, an Officer (Wolf Frees) and two Soldiers walk towards the newly weds.
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The Officer addresses Mrs. Pilgrin by her maiden name.
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Stanislaus Pilgrin is pushed out of the way and his wife is manhandled into the lorry.
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Back in the present, Dr. Charles Bovard (Herbert Lom) walks across a snowy square
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The Doctor turns when Dr. Wolf speaks his name as she emerges from behind a statue.
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Shocked at the sight of Michele, Charles holds the arm of his old friend as the two walk together.
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Michele tells Charles that Stanislaus thought she had died and doesn't know that she is in Paris or that she has been in a sanatorium since the end of the war.
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Fabienne Wolf (Samantha Eggar) walks along a street before stopping in her tracks after spotting someone who resembles her step-mother Michele.
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Following plastic surgery by Dr. Bovard, Michele crosses the road outside the building where she has taken a flat.
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Fabienne watches as the dark haired woman gets into a cab before crossing to the apartment building to make enquiries.
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After persuading Madame Robert to help his lover Fabienne inherit her step-mother's estate, Stanislaus begins an affair with his former wife.
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The shot tilts up the building where Fabienne looks onto the street from behind the curtains of the apartment she shares with Stanislaus.
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Soon after Stanislaus drowns Fabienne in her bath, he returns to the apartment where he had set a trap to kill Michele.
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Stanislaus Pilgrin enters the building to find Michele's body lying on the floor in front of his safe.