POLAND · 1948

The Search

Fred Zinnemann
displaced children postwar trauma family separation cross cultural friendship maternal search
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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.

Year1948
CountryPoland
DirectorFred Zinnemann
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