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Praesens-Film & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present

The Search

directed by Fred Zinnemann

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

19481h 44mNRDrama

The Search poster

Praesens-Film & Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present

The Search

directed by Fred Zinnemann

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

19481h 44mNRDrama

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§ Synopsis

Drama · War

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.

§ Keywords

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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

§ Crew

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Director

Screenplay

Richard Schweizer

Cinematography

Music

§ Cast

8 of 11

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift

as Ralph Stevenson

Ivan Jandl

as Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'

Aline MacMahon

Wendell Corey

as Jerry Fisher

Jarmila Novotná

Jarmila Novotná

as Hannah Malik

Mary Patton

Ewart G. Morrison

Leopold Borkowski

Leopold Borkowski

as Joel Markowsky

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