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The Search

Genre: Drama, War
Countries: Switzerland, USA,
Release Date: March 23, 1948
Year: 1948
Runtime:105 mins
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A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy's mother, the sole surviving member of his family, searches refugee centers for her son. Time, distance, and the massive numbers of refugee children are factors hampering the reunion of mother and son.

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