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.
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DVD-R Details
- 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)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon & Wendell Corey | |
Performer: | Ivan Jandl, Jarmila Novotna, E.G. Morrison & Mary Patton | |
Directed by | Fred Zinnemann | |
Edited by | Hermann Haller | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Jarrico, Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler | |
Composition by | Robert Blum | |
Cinematography by | Emil Berna | |
Produced by | Lazar Wechsler |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1948 -
Best Motion Picture Story: David Wechsler & Richard Schweizer
Academy Awards 1948 -
Special Achievement Awards: Ivan Jandl
Entertainment Reviews:
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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Film4
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.
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Nick's Flick Picks
Rating: 5/5 --
The Search, in our estimation, is a major revelation in our times.
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New York Times
Rating: B --
A moving wartime drama about orphaned children that's directed in a simple semi-documentary style.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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.
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Time Out
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/4 --
Zinnemann and Clift received Oscar nominations and Jandl won a special juvenile Oscar for his haunting portrayal of the tragic child.
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TV Guide
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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