The Search (2014 film)

The Search
Film poster
Directed byMichel Hazanavicius
Written byMichel Hazanavicius
Produced byMichel Hazanavicius
Thomas Langmann
StarringBérénice Bejo
Annette Bening
CinematographyGuillaume Schiffman
Edited byAnne-Sophie Bion
Michel Hazanavicius
Music bySelim Azzazi
Production
companies
La Petite Reine
Worldview Entertainment
La Classe Américaine
Georgian Film Investment Group
Sarke Studio
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • 21 May 2014 (2014-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 26 November 2014 (2014-11-26) (France)
Running time
160 minutes
CountriesFrance
Georgia[1]
LanguagesEnglish
French
Russian
Chechen[2]
Box office$600,000[3]

The Search is a 2014 French 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,[4] 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"[5] during the first year of the Second Chechen War (1999–2009).[6][7] The Search was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[8]

  1. ^ "The Search". Cannes. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  2. ^ "The Search". TIFF. Archived from the original on 22 August 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  3. ^ "The Search (2014)". JPBox-Office. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. ^ Bosley Crowther (24 March 1948). "Film Review The Search (1948)". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
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  6. ^ "Filming locations for The Search (1948)". IMDB.
  7. ^ ""The Search" : Michel Hazanavicius entame le tournage du successeur de "The Artist"". allocine. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  8. ^ "2014 Official Selection: The Search Synopsis". Cannes. 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.