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The Search

1948·Drama·1h 44m
7.1
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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.
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
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
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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
Leopold Borkowski
Leopold Borkowski
Joel Markowsky
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann
Interpreter (uncredited)

Crew

Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann
Director

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Club Skunk
Club Skunk
7.6★ · 10/16/19
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