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13 April 2003 (USA)
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Won Primetime Emmy.
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The real Sophie's Choice
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Christine Lahti | ... | Gisella Perl |
 | Beau Bridges | ... | Herman Prentiss |
 | Richard Crenna | ... | Jake Smith |
 | Bruce Davison | ... | Peter Schuman |
 | Jonathan Cake | ... | Dr. Mengele |
| Jolyon Baker | ... | Frederick Krauss |
 | Jessica Beitchman | ... | Marta Weiss |
| Oliver Cotton | ... | Moshe Perl |
| Michelle Fine | ... | Fanny Perl |
| Zoie Palmer | ... | Didi Goldstein |
| Maria Ricossa | ... | Esther Jacob |
| Ingrid Veninger | ... | Zozia |
| Emma Wellbelove | ... | Young Gisella |
| Nina Young | ... | Irma Griese |
| Vytautas Rumsas | ... | David Perl |
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Gisella Perl (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for violence/cruelty and some nudity.
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USA:120 min
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Richard Crenna's final acting project.
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Christine Lahti adds another compelling performance to her resume as the real-life doctor Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1944. She is the primary reason to see this film, which also features Richard Crenna in his final film role, as well as character pros Beau Bridges & Bruce Davison as rather smug Immigration officers in the New York of 1947. Perl had emigrated to the US to resume her practice and despite her technical qualifications, had to run a gamut of accusations from Immigration regarding her activities and perceived collaboration with the Nazis at the infamous death camp. Like "Sophie's Choice", the fictional story of Holocaust survival which won Meryl Streep at much-deserved Oscar, "Ashes" makes great use of flashbacks and thick Eastern European accents for realism. The actor playing the mass-murderer Dr. Mengele is particularly chilling in his matter-of-fact way of choosing who should live and who should die, or worse, undergo the scientific quackery of his "experiments". Lahti is just perfect in the role, and the scene of her prayer to her father late in the film is especially moving.