The Search

The Search (1948)

26/03/1948
Drama, War
1h 44m

Overview

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.

  • Fred ZinnemannDirector
  • Montgomery CliftWriter
  • Betty SmithWriter
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

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

Top Billed Cast

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

Ralph Stevenson

Ivan Jandl

Ivan Jandl

Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'

Aline MacMahon

Aline MacMahon

Mrs. Murray

Wendell Corey

Wendell Corey

Jerry Fisher

Jarmila Novotná

Jarmila Novotná

Hannah Malik

Mary Patton

Mary Patton

Mrs. Fisher

Ewart G. Morrison

Mr. Crookes

Leopold Borkowski

Leopold Borkowski

Joel Markowsky

Claude Gambier

Raoul Dubois

William Rogers

Tom Fisher

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