The Search

Name: The Search
Released: 1948
Rating: 7.1

1948 · Movie

104 min English

89 votes

Drama

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.

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Cast, directors & writers

Montgomery Clift

Ralph Stevenson

Ivan Jandl

Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'

Aline MacMahon

Mrs. Murray

Wendell Corey

Jerry Fisher

Jarmila Novotná

Hannah Malik

Mary Patton

Mrs. Fisher

Ewart G. Morrison

Mr. Crookes

Leopold Borkowski

Joel Markowsky

Claude Gambier

Raoul Dubois

William Rogers

Tom Fisher

Fred Zinnemann

Interpreter (uncredited) · Director

Richard Schweizer

Writer

Keywords

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