This touching film shot in a semi-documentary style by Zinneman, will have even the most hardened viewers sobbing in the aisles.
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05/24/03
The Search (1948)
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Average Rating:8.3/10
Synopsis: In Montgomery Clift's first released film, he plays Ralph Stevenson, an American G.I., on assignment in Germany directly after World War II. While driving in his jeep, he spots a displaced,... [More]
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Zinnemann and Clift received Oscar nominations and Jandl won a special juvenile Oscar for his haunting portrayal of the tragic child.
11/01/07
The Search, in our estimation, is a major revelation in our times.
05/20/03
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08/22/03
A moving wartime drama about orphaned children that's directed in a simple semi-documentary style.
05/13/08
Featuring the striking debut of Montgomery Clift, The Search, a quasi-documentary story of a sympathetic American soldier who rescues a Czech boy-refugee in post WWII Germany, also established Fred Zinnemann's reputation as a an A director.
04/11/07
Both a well-modulated immersion in the experience of stunned and stranded children and a time-capsule of the scarred land and crumbled cityscapes of Germany after the war.
10/18/07
Although there's a slight suspicion that (as in Rossellini's work from this period) the plight of children is being used as a sort of emotional shorthand, the integrity and moving effect of this piece is never really in doubt.
02/09/06
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