

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.
Wheel of Ashes was directed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Wheel of Ashes runs for 1h 35min, and was released in 1968.
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