The Search

In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survived Auschwitz wanders alone - feral, mute and terrified. The Search vividly captures the horrifying human cost of war. This milestone of filmmaking won two 1948 Academy Awards.
The Search
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: September 15, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1948
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1948 - Best Motion Picture Story: David Wechsler & Richard Schweizer
Academy Awards 1948 - Special Achievement Awards: Ivan Jandl

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 752
This touching film shot in a semi-documentary style by Zinneman, will have even the most hardened viewers sobbing in the aisles. Full Review
Film4
May 24, 2003
Rating: B+ -- 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. Full Review
Nick's Flick Picks
Oct 18, 2007
Rating: 5/5 -- The Search, in our estimation, is a major revelation in our times. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: B -- A moving wartime drama about orphaned children that's directed in a simple semi-documentary style. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 13, 2008
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. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Rating: B+ -- 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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Apr 11, 2007
Rating: 4/4 -- Zinnemann and Clift received Oscar nominations and Jandl won a special juvenile Oscar for his haunting portrayal of the tragic child. Full Review
TV Guide
Nov 1, 2007

Description by OLDIES.com:

In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survived Auschwitz wanders alone - feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then-unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near-documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble-strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human cost of war. This milestone of filmmaking won two 1948 Academy Awards®: Best Motion Picture Story and a special award to Ivan Jandl for his haunting performance as the lost child.

Product Description:

An American G.I. discovers a nine-year-old boy hiding amid the burned-out rubble in postwar Berlin. While he cares for the boy, the boy's mother desperately searches all displaced person's camps for him. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best Actor--Montgomery Clift, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Motion Picture Story.

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  • UPC: 883316204733
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