The Painted Bird
- Release Date
- September 12, 2019
- Director
- Václav Marhoul
- Cast
- Stellan Skarsgård , Harvey Keitel , Barry Pepper , Julian Sands , Udo Kier , Aleksey Kravchenko
- Runtime
- 169
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Jerzy Kosinski , Václav Marhoul
- Tagline
- Light is visible only in the dark
Summary
Adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's controversial Holocaust novel "The Painted Bird." Published in 1965, "The Painted Bird" tells the story of a six-year-old Jewish boy in Eastern Europe sent into hiding by his parents to avoid being sent to a death camp by the Nazis during WWII. Book was banned in the author's native Poland by Communist authorities for 23 years.
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A boy struggles to survive horrific atrocities during World War II. The Painted Bird is the bleakest film in recent memory.