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The Search

"Everybody agrees MGM's The Search is a wonderful motion picture!"

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NR 1948 · 1h 44m

Drama

Starring Montgomery Clift · Ivan Jandl · Aline MacMahon

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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.

Theatrical

Mar 26, 1948

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Writer

Richard Schweizer

Producers

Oscar Düby, Lazar Wechsler

Music

Robert Blum

Studio

Praesens-Film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Keywords

adoption auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp love little boy post war germany 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

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Montgomery Clift

Ralph Stevenson

Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'

Jarmila Novotná

Interpreter (uncredited)

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