The Search

Something like a flashback, providing background on post-war refugee Karel (Ivan Jandl), in particular introducing his mother Hanna (Czech-born Metropolitan Opera soprano Jarmila Novotna), from Fred Zinnemann's The Search, 1948.

American soldier Steve (Montgomery Clift) has just brought mute refugee kid Karel (Ivan Jandl) home in the American zone in post-war Germany, getting help from colleague and roommate Jerry (Wendell Corey), in director Fred Zinnemann's The Search, 1948.

Director Fred Zinnemann's opening, shooting in the ruins of post-war Nuremberg, Aline MacMahon narrating as aid worker "Mrs. Murray," and glimpses at young Ivan Jandl, who will play the lead, in The Search, 1948.

The first scene in which Montgomery Clift was seen by movie audiences, as American soldier "Steve" Stevenson, in post-war Germany meeting young refugee Karel (Ivan Jandl), who has already escaped from United Nations authorities once, in Fred Zinnemann's The Search, 1948.

An American soldier (Montgomery Clift) in postwar Europe becomes attached to a homeless child (Ivan Jandi) in The Search (1948), directed by Fred Zinnemann.