The Search

Carole (Bérénice Bejo) works for a humanitarian organization in Chechnya during the first year of the Second Chechen War, and she wants to get help to people the invasion has left with nothing. She takes in Hadji (Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev), a young boy alone in the middle of the fighting. Michel Hazanavicius, working from Fred Zinnemann's 1948 film of the same name, shows what a war does to the children who are left standing in it.