"Return from Hell...addsa valuable page to the already rich filmography of the tragic years, 1914-1918. A doomed love story and amarital triangle are interrupted by the war, and at the front the two rivals have to switch from mutualloathing (going to the point of attempted murder) to cooperation and a desperate struggle to help each othersurvive after they have deserted. The husband dies, the lover goes mad and returns home, a ghost amongthose around him. Powerfully acted...Return from Hell also offers us an original visual metaphor for thehorrors of war. At (the Moscow Film Festival) the film won a Special Jury Mention." Manuela Cernat,International Film Guide '84