Based on a true story, this heart-wrenching film follows the journey of Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who manages to survive Auschwitz. Decades later, she's ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Christine Lahti | ... | Gisella Perl | |
| Bruce Davison | ... | Peter Schuman | |
| Jonathan Cake | ... | Dr. Mengele | |
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Jolyon Baker | ... | Frederick Krauss |
| Jessica Beitchman | ... | Marta Weiss | |
| Oliver Cotton | ... | Moshe Perl | |
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Michelle Fine | ... | Fanny Perl |
| Zoie Palmer | ... | Didi Goldstein | |
| Maria Ricossa | ... | Esther Jacob | |
| Ingrid Veninger | ... | Zozia | |
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Emma Wellbelove | ... | Young Gisella |
| Nina Young | ... | Irma Griese | |
| Richard Crenna | ... | Jake Smith | |
| Beau Bridges | ... | Herman Prentiss | |
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Vytautas Rumsas | ... | David Perl |
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Based on a true story, this heart-wrenching film follows the journey of Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who manages to survive Auschwitz. Decades later, she's applying for U.S. citizenship when she becomes accused of colluding with the Nazis. Her judge and jury are three INS investigators (played by Bruce Davison, Richard Crenna and Beau Bridges) who must decide her fate Written by Rottem Tomatoes
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13 April 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Meryl Streep at first was considered for the role of Dr Perl but she turned it down. See more »Goofs
When Gisella Perl is shopping for produce in the market she is called a killer by a women who is missing a bottom tooth. You can easily tell that the tooth is not really missing but obviously blacked out due to the reflection. See more »Quotes
Gisella Perl: I can recall wanting to be a doctor when I was a little girl. And I became a doctor... a very good doctor, if I can say that. I knew each child I helped bring into the world was a gift, not from me, but from God. But everything changed when I was deported to Auschwitz and began working there as a doctor. You know about some of the things I did there, for the pregnant women. But yes, I did sent unknowingly many women to their deaths within the day of my arrival. And yes, some of the things I did...See more »
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In "Out of the Ashes", Lahti is out front delivering a typically sterling performance as a gynecologist and Auschwitz survivor who applies for citizenship to the US while reliving the horrors of her WWII experience via flashback before a panel of review not unlike the Spanish Inquisition. This lame flick is melodramatic to the point of the ridiculous with the bad guys being the personification of evil and the good guys being worthy of canonization as saints. If we needed another WWII death camp story, which we don't, this one certainly is not it. A pathetically melodramatic treatment of a serious subject in the guise of a biopic not worthy of further commentary. (C)