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Christine Lahti, Beau Bridges, Richard Crenna, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake ... see more see more... , Zoie Palmer , Jolyon Baker , Jessica Beitchman , Oliver Cotton , Michelle Fine , Maria Ricossa , Ingrid Veninger , Emma Wellbelove , Nina Young , Vytautas Rumsas , Inga Tuminiene , Adrija Cepaite-Palsauskiene , Inga Maskarina , Nola Augustson , Alan Jordan , Judah Katz , Monika Biciunaite , Kilimciauskaite , Kristina Mauruseviciute , Getter Kosolov , Aurelija Pasmuntaite , Joonas Suokko , Elena Stonciute

This powerful, politically charged cable TV movie was based on the memoirs of Hungarian gynecologist and Holocaust survivor Gisella Perl. Having spent the WWII years in charge of the woman's infirmary... read more read more... at Auschwitz, Perl (played by Christine Lahti) hopes to leave her living nightmare behind when the Allies liberate Europe. But when she applies for American citizenship in 1946, 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 thousands of pregnant women from the Nazi gas chambers. Filmed on location in Canada, the U.K., and Lithuania, Out of the Ashes made its Showtime network debut on April 13, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Directed by: Joseph Sargent

Release Date: April 13, 2003

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DVD Release Date: April 20, 2004

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  • clooneyfan
    August 4, 2008
    clooneyfan
    This was one of those movies that had me thinking all night after I watched it.

    The first 20 minutes were slow but as they delved into Dr. Perl's past, it became heartbreaking to witness what this Jewish doctor had to do to survive the Holocaust.

    Seeing the pregnant women ... read moregetting gassed and experimented on by nazi Dr. Menegle made me understand why she performed all those illegal abortions while in Auschwitz.

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