- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- September 12, 2019 (5 years ago)
- Alias
- Nabarvené ptáče
- Language
- Czech
- Origin
- Czech Republic · Slovakia · Ukraine
- Production companies
- Česká televize · Directory Films · PubRes · RTVS · Silver Screen
- Runtime
- 2h 49m
- Rating
- TV-MA
The Painted Bird

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Cast
Petr KotlárJoska
Nina ŠunevičMarta
Alla SokolovaOlga
Udo KierMiller
Michaela DoležalováMiller's Wife
Stellan SkarsgårdHans
Harvey KeitelPriest
Julian SandsGarbos
Júlia VidrnákováLabina
Lech DyblikLekh
Aleksei KravchenkoGavrila
Barry PepperMitka
Petr VaněkNikodém
Radim FialaCossack
Jitka ČvančarováLudmila
Tim KalkhofSS Officer
Alexander Leopold SchankSS Officer
Filip KaňkovskýMerchant
Milan ŠimáčekMayor
Pavel KřížAvid Man
Dominik WeberLuftwaffe Officer
Štěpán Havlín
Denisa Pfauserová
Zdeněk Pecha
Stanislav Bilyi
Ostap DziadekPeasant
Daniel Beroun
Marika Procházková
Marie Štípková
Martin Nahálka
Petr Jeništa
Irena Máchová
Josef Bedlivý
Tomáš Kraus
Ondřej Malina
Jan Monczka
Petr Klimeš
Alexandr Minajev
Petr Stach
Andrej Polák
Jan Meduna
Kryštof Rímský
Tereza Martinková
Filip Richtermoc
Erik Srbený
Jan Pavlíček
Jiří Slavík
Petr Ostrouchov
Ivo Proks
Martin Šanda
Josef Kůrka
Jakub R. Špůr
Klára Konvalinková
Karel Dvořák
Zdeněk Krupička
Pavel Rubín
Martin Kotas
Kryštof Peterka
Helena Bártová
Robert Bárta
Daniela Řepová
Václav Marhoul
Lukáš Marhoul
Tomáš Marhoul
Anton Šejvl
Lukáš Kapko
Antonín Mašek
David L. Price
Crew
Reviews
Movie Review: The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski's brutal novel of Nazi-occupied Poland loses none of its inhumanity
‘The Painted Bird’: Intense war story tough to stomach but rewarding to see A wandering boy endures unbearable cruelty from a variety of strangers in searing adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel.
Film Review: The Painted Bird ★★★★☆ Premiering in competition at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Václav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosińsk’s 1965 novel The Painted ...
Review: The Painted Bird 04/09/2019 - VENICE 2019: Václav Marhoul's audaciously arty account of a suffering World War II boy walks a constant fine line between the sublime and the r...
The Painted Bird Petr Kotlar stars in Václav Marhoul's stark black-and-white Czech drama. Read the Empire review.
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The Painted Bird — rapturous images, harrowing scenes Czech director Vaclav Marhoul’s film follows a boy’s journey of horrors during the second world war
‘The Painted Bird’: Film Review Jerzy Kosinski’s horrific novel about an unnamed boy wandering around Eastern Europe at the close of World War II is sensitively adapted for the screen in ...
The Painted Bird is a circus of the grotesque without cause or direction Set in Eastern Europe during the Second World War, Vaclav Marhoul's new film perceives hatred as humanity's defining feature. But its message is decontextual...
‘The Painted Bird’ Review: A Gruesome Three-Hour Parade of Inhumanity Václav Marhoul's black-and-white film is an epic portrait of inhumanity in the tradition of "Come and See" and "The Tin Drum."
The Painted Bird: This film sent patrons running from cinema. I recommend you watch it Review: Wartime horrors and inhumane acts are present from the very beginning
Review: World War II is hell (again) in 'The Painted Bird' Václav Marhoul's adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's 1965 novel is punishingly if effectively bleak.
‘Painted Bird’ review: This brilliant shocker got walkouts at film fests Just wait until the scene in which a nympho gets it on with a goat!
‘The Painted Bird’ Review: Horrors That Can’t Be Unseen (Published 2020) An ambitious adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s debut novel doesn’t quite translate to the screen.
‘The Painted Bird’ Is One of the Most Relentless Depictions of Evil Ever Film critic Oliver Jones weighs the objectively beautiful film’s brutal depictions of atrocity, rape and unvarnished evil.
The Painted Bird movie review (2020) It’s in trying to locate the—for lack of a better term—heart of the movie where problems emerge.
Movie Review: The horrific odyssey that is “The Painted Bird” Translated from the printed page onto a black and white movie screen, removed from the heady “Eastern European novelist chic” of the Nabokov ’60s, and ...
'The Painted Bird' Review: Unsparing War Drama Is Roughest Watch of 2020 'The Painted Bird' brings the notorious WWII novel to the screen and turns it into an endurance test of violence and depravity. Our review.
"The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war This 169-minute, black & white adaptation of the controversial novel is unrelenting in its violence and despair
‘The Painted Bird’: Venice Review An abandoned boy witness atrocities throughout Europe at the close of World War II
Review: The Painted Bird is an unforgettable, soul-crushing and essential tour through fascism’s madness ‘The Painted Bird’: A Grueling Deluge Of Human Misery With Little To Say About Life Itself [Review] Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” is an impenetrable slog, a parade of agony that begins with a treasured pet being set on fire by village bullies, ...
'The Painted Bird' Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul's three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
Review: The Painted Bird Searches for Meaning in Unrelenting Tragedy Václav Marhoul’s epic adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński’s brutal 1965 novel is skillfully provocative, but not entirely worth it.
Film Review: ‘The Painted Bird’ Václav Marhoul's muscular, savagely realized third feature puts an unnamed Jewish boy through a challenging litany of Holocaust horrors.
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