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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   366 votes
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Director:
Joseph Sargent
Writers (WGA):
Gisella Perl (book)
Anne Meredith (teleplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
13 April 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination more
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User Comments:
Melodrama ad nauseam more (13 total)

Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Gisella Perl (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence/cruelty and some nudity.
Runtime:
USA:120 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
UK:15 | Finland:K-15 (TV rating) (self applied) | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Richard Crenna's final acting project. more

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5 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
Melodrama ad nauseam, 28 April 2003
5/10
Author: George Parker from Orange County, CA USA

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)

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