The Search (2014)

Directed by

Michel Hazanavicius

Genre

drama film

Country

Georgia, France

Runtime

2h 29m

Rated

16

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 86 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A westerner helps a lost child find his family during the Chechen war. The film follows their journey through the chaos of conflict.

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What happens

The Search is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and produced by Hazanavicius and Thomas Langmann. The film was inspired by the Oscar-winning post-Holocaust drama also called The Search, directed by Fred Zinnemann, in which a compassionate westerner helps a lost child find what is left of his family amidst the chaotic flood of post-war civilian refugees. In the 1948 film, the backdrop is post-war Berlin; The Search (2014) takes place in the "front lines of the Russian invasion of Chechnya" during the first year of the Second Chechen War (1999–2009). The Search was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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