THE PAINTED BIRD
Europe Europe
Amid the confusion of World War Two, a Jewish couple entrusts their 6-year-old son to an older foster mother who lives in the countryside. Alas, when the woman dies, the young boy is left to fend for himself, henceforth hiking from village to village. Along the way, he witnesses and experiences extraordinary brutality, not only at the hands of soldiers, but above all perpetrated by the ignorant, superstitious rural population. By war’s end, the boy has been forever transformed. Václav Marhoul adapted Polish-Jewish writer Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel “The Painted Bird” for the screen, shot in black-and-white on 35mm film and boasting a star-studded cast.
NABARVENÉ PTÁČE / NABARVENÉ PTÁČE
CZE, SVK, UKR 2019 / 169 min
Language: Interslavic, Czech, Russian, German
Director: Václav Marhoul
- Screenplay: Václav Marhoul
- Cinematographer: Vladimír Smutný
- Editor: Luděk Hudec
- Sound: Jakub Čech, Pavel Rejholec
- Cast: Petr Kotlár, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper, Aleksei Kravchenko, Zdeněk Pecha, Michaela Doležalová, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Čvančarová, Júlia Valentová, Petr Vaněk, Nina Shunevych, Alla Sokolova
- Producer: Václav Marhoul
- Production Company: Silver Screen
- Co-Production Company: Czech Television, Eduard & Milada Kucera, Directory Films, PubRes, Slovak Radio & TV, CertiCon Group, Innogy
- World Sales: Celluloid Dreams
Amid the confusion of World War Two, a Jewish couple entrusts their 6-year-old son to an older foster mother who lives in the countryside. Alas, when the woman dies, the young boy is left to fend for himself, henceforth hiking from village to village. Along the way, he witnesses and experiences extraordinary brutality, not only at the hands of soldiers, but above all perpetrated by the ignorant, superstitious rural population. By war’s end, the boy has been forever transformed. Václav Marhoul adapted Polish-Jewish writer Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel “The Painted Bird” for the screen, shot in black-and-white on 35mm film and boasting a star-studded cast.
- Screenplay: Václav Marhoul
- Cinematographer: Vladimír Smutný
- Editor: Luděk Hudec
- Sound: Jakub Čech, Pavel Rejholec
- Cast: Petr Kotlár, Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper, Aleksei Kravchenko, Zdeněk Pecha, Michaela Doležalová, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Čvančarová, Júlia Valentová, Petr Vaněk, Nina Shunevych, Alla Sokolova
- Producer: Václav Marhoul
- Production Company: Silver Screen
- Co-Production Company: Czech Television, Eduard & Milada Kucera, Directory Films, PubRes, Slovak Radio & TV, CertiCon Group, Innogy
- World Sales: Celluloid Dreams