The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 86% of the 417 1940s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
89 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard SchweizerScreenplay
- Fred ZinnemannDirector
- Robert BlumOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Montgomery CliftRalph Stevenson
- Ivan JandlKarel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'
- Aline MacMahonMrs. Murray
- Wendell CoreyJerry Fisher
- Jarmila NovotnáHannah Malik
- Mary PattonMrs. Fisher
- Ewart G. MorrisonMr. Crookes
- Leopold BorkowskiJoel Markowsky
- Claude GambierRaoul Dubois
- William RogersTom Fisher
- Fred ZinnemannInterpreter (uncredited)
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Themes
adoptionauschwitz-birkenau concentration camppost war germanylovelittle boyorphandevotiontrustdisplacement camppresumed deadpost world war iienglish lesson