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Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.


“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.

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
The Search is a drama, war film released in 1948 exploring themes of adoption, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, post war germany, love, little boy, orphan. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, it stars Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon. 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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