Bibliograph

The search, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; original screenplay, Richard Schweizer ; collaboration on screenplay by David Wechsler ; additional dialogue by Paul Jarrico ; produced by Lazar Wechsler ; produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Praesens-Film, Zurich ; directed by Fred Zinnemann

Type

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The search, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; original screenplay, Richard Schweizer ; collaboration on screenplay by David Wechsler ; additional dialogue by Paul Jarrico ; produced by Lazar Wechsler ; produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Praesens-Film, Zurich ; directed by Fred Zinnemann

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The search

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

465069495

Responsibility statement

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; original screenplay, Richard Schweizer ; collaboration on screenplay by David Wechsler ; additional dialogue by Paul Jarrico ; produced by Lazar Wechsler ; produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Praesens-Film, Zurich ; directed by Fred Zinnemann

Runtime

104

Series statement

Archive collection

Summary

"In post-World War II Germany, a small boy who survivied 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."--Container

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

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