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IFC Films |
Release Date (Streaming):
July 17, 2020
Summary:
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosiriski novel, The Painted Bird is a meticulous 35mm black and white evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War I. The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and the Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to village, farmhouse to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock. The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its fellows. That lesson reinforces all The Boy already knows and will soon know better: difference is fatal. But there are rare moments of compassion: a German soldier spares The Boy, a priest intervenes on his behalf, and finally The Boy becomes the protégé of a Russian sniper, who is kind to the child, but ruthless with the enemy. And there are signs of love. The Boy is seduced by an older girl, finally re-discovering the comfort of intimacy, only to realize that he has been used. When he is miraculously reunited with his weakened father at the end of the war, The Boy is cold and impenetrable, hardened by his ordeal. Yet we can still glimpse something of the old, sensitive Boy behind the eyes of the new. Perhaps there is hope. [IFC Films]
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Details
| Runtime: | 169 min |
| Rating: | NR |
| Official Site: | https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-painted-bird |
| Production: | Ceská Televize |
| Genres: | Drama, War |
| Countries: | CZ, SK, UA |
| Languages: | German, Russian, Latin, Czech |
| Director | Credit |
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| Václav Marhoul | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Jerzy Kosinski | Novel |
| Václav Marhoul | Adaptation |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Aleksey Kravchenko | Gavrila |
| Alla Sokolova | Olga |
| Antonín Masek | Young Boy |
| Barry Pepper | Mitka |
| David L. Price | Homeless Man |
| Denisa Pfauserová | Principal Cast |
| Harvey Keitel | Priest |
| Jitka Cvancarová | Ludmila/Nymphomaniac |
| Julian Sands | Garbos/Parishioner |
| Lech Dyblik | Lekh |
| Michaela Dolezalová | Miller's Wife |
| Nina Sunevic | Marta |
| Ostap Dziadek | Peasant |
| Pavel Kríz | Avid Man |
| Petr Kotlar | Joska |
| Petr Vanek | Nikodem |
| Stanislav Bilyi | Villager |
| Stellan Skarsgård | Hans/German Soldier |
| Tim Kalkhof | SS Officer |
| Udo Kier | Miller |
| Zdenek Pecha | Labourer |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Antonín Masek | Young Boy |
| Claudia Vaseková | Cast |
| Daniel Beroun | Tall Adolescent |
| David L. Price | Homeless Man |
| Denisa Pfauserová | Cast |
| Dominik Weber | Luftwaffe Officer |
| Filip Kankovský | Merchant |
| Irena Máchová | Cast |
| Lech Dyblik | Lekh |
| Marie Stripkova | Woman #2 |
| Marika Sarah Procházková | Woman #1 |
| Martin Nahálka | Red Partisan Commander |
| Milan Simácek | Mayor |
| Pavel Kríz | Avid Man |
| Petr Kotlar | The Boy |
| Petr Vanek | Nikodem |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Aleksandr Kushaev | Producer |
| Ales Tybl | Line Producer |
| Igor Savychenko | Co-Producer |
| Katerina Spurová | Line Producer |
| Lubica Orechovská | Co-Producer |
| Tatiana Detlofson | Associate Producer |
| Václav Marhoul | Producer |
| Volodymyr Filippov | Co-Producer |
| Zuzana Mistríková | Co-Producer |
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