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The Search

The Search

Mar 26, 1948 1h 44m
6.9
70 votes

Synopsis

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.

Title The Search
Companies Praesens-Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries Switzerland, United States of America
Keywords adoption, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, post war germany, love, little boy, orphan, devotion, trust, displacement camp, presumed dead, post world war ii, english lesson, runaway child, concentration camp survivor, case worker, american g.i., search for child, drowned child, learning english
Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

Ralph Stevenson
Ivan Jandl

Ivan Jandl

Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'
Wendell Corey

Wendell Corey

Jerry Fisher
Mary Patton

Mary Patton

Mrs. Fisher
Leopold Borkowski

Leopold Borkowski

Joel Markowsky
Claude Gambier

Claude Gambier

Raoul Dubois
Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann

Interpreter (uncredited)