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.
Montgomery Clift
as Ralph Stevenson
Ivan Jandl
as Karel Malik aka 'Jim'/'Jimmy'
Aline MacMahon
as Mrs. Murray
Wendell Corey
as Jerry Fisher
Jarmila Novotná
as Hannah Malik
Mary Patton
as Mrs. Fisher
Ewart G. Morrison
as Mr. Crookes
Leopold Borkowski
as Joel Markowsky
Claude Gambier
as Raoul Dubois
William Rogers
as Tom Fisher
Fred Zinnemann
as Interpreter (uncredited)