Out of the Ashes is a movie that was released by Showtime. It has a running time of 113 minutes and an MPAA rating of R.
This powerful, politically charged cable TV movie was based on the memoirs of Hungarian gynecologist and Holocaust survivor Gisella Perl. Having spent the last year of World War II in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz, Perl (played by Christine Lahti) hopes to leave her living nightmare behind when the Russians liber...
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Out of the Ashes is a movie that was released by Showtime. It has a running time of 113 minutes and an MPAA rating of R.
This powerful, politically charged cable TV movie was based on the memoirs of Hungarian gynecologist and Holocaust survivor Gisella Perl. Having spent the last year of World War II in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz, Perl (played by Christine Lahti) hopes to leave her living nightmare behind when the Russians liberate Auschwitz. But when she applies for American citizenship in 1947, she is hauled into military court to explain the extent to which she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at Auschwitz without her superiors' knowledge. But as Perl struggles to explain to her relentless interrogators (the explanation taking the form of extended flashbacks), she terminated the lives of the unborn to save about a thousand pregnant women from the Nazi gas...
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