Movie
The Search
1948NR1h 44m7.1 / 10
Everybody agrees MGM's The Search is a wonderful motion picture!
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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Checked Sep 5, 2026
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Synopsis
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.
More about The Search
Watch trailerThe Search (1948) Official Trailer - Montgomery Clift, Wendell Corey Post-WWII Movie HDCast
Montgomery CliftRalph Stevenson
Ivan JandlKarel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'
Aline MacMahonMrs. Murray
Wendell CoreyJerry Fisher
Jarmila NovotnáHannah Malik
Mary PattonMrs. FisherEwart G. MorrisonMr. Crookes
Leopold BorkowskiJoel MarkowskyCredits
- Directed by
- Fred Zinnemann
- Written by
- Richard Schweizer
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
Production
Praesens-FilmSwitzerland
Metro-Goldwyn-MayerUnited States
Themes
adoptionamerican g.i.auschwitz-birkenau concentration campcase workerconcentration camp survivordevotiondisplacement campdrowned child
