The Painted Bird

The Painted Bird

  • Director: Václav Marhoul
  • Writer: Jerzy Kosinski,Václav Marhoul,Tom Abrams
  • Countries of origin: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
  • Language: Czech, German, Russian, Latin
  • Release date: July 17, 2020
  • Sound mix: 12-Track Digital Sound
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Розфарбований птах
  • "The Painted Bird" is a feature film written and directed by Václav Marhoul and starring Peter Cottard, which premiered on September 3, 2019 at the 76th Venice International Film Festival in Italy   .
    Based on Jerzy Kosinski's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a young Jewish boy trying to survive in an unnamed Eastern European village during the outbreak of World War II   .

    Details

    • Release date July 17, 2020
    • Filming locations Dolnoslaskie, Poland
    • Production companies Silver Screen, Ceská Televize, PubRes

    Box office

    Budget

    CZK 175,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,460

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $452

    Gross worldwide

    $659,535

    Movie reviews

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    • By Alexzander 2022-04-21 09:03:38

      What happened to Poland?

      Throughout the film, I have roughly summed up several characteristics: First, black and white tones, and a dull sense of depression. Second, there are very few lines, especially the protagonist, I only remember one of the lines of the little boy, that is, what he said at the beginning I just wanted to go home. Third, all the actors have almost no smiling faces and no laughter, just dead, numb, fearful expressions. Fourth, there is no soundtrack throughout the entire film.

    • By Alvis 2022-04-21 09:03:38

      There are not many dialogues, it is all living people and things, and there are horrible scenes.

      "Smeared Bird" tells the story of a young boy's wandering experience in rural Eastern Europe during World War II. The film takes three hours to describe the life of a mountain village that has been marginalized by modern society. Incomplete family, strong desire, survival relationship of the weak and the strong, human beings live no different from animals, and the slaughter between people is merciless, it really seems to be back in the Middle Ages. The little boy experienced ignorance,...

    • By Raven 2022-04-21 09:03:38

      existence is courage

      I'm in a bad mood recently, and I don't know what life means to me. Is life just survival, but my existence is not pleasant. Since I can't understand what real happiness is, let's look at real despair. The smeared bird is based on the background of World War II. When we think about World War II, we will think of the German genocide and Japan's aggression against China. This is also the main content of most movies about World War II, but the whole film is about war. There are very few...

    • By Jabari 2022-04-21 09:03:38

      The Misunderstood "Shining Red Star"

      I don't know if the director of the tainted bird has seen the sparkling red star. If the movie ends at 150 minutes of shooting, it's a modern-day version of Sparkling Red Star. Forgive my clumsiness, before the partisans gave the child to the Germans, I had absolutely no idea of ​​his Jewish identity. At most, it is considered a ukiyo-e from the Czech Republic of World War II, and it does not even think that human nature is inherently evil. The second point is being rescued by the Soviet...

    • By Jany 2022-04-21 09:03:38

      dark, cruel, difficult

      The encounter of the male protagonist's pet little white rabbit at the beginning of the film is almost a microcosm of the male protagonist's later fate - being bullied, tortured, ridiculed, and ignored, all of which are the lowest darkness and the most humble difficulties in the world, which cannot be modified. , so except for the final subtitles, there is no music in the whole film but the original sound of the plot: screaming, crying, scolding, whipping, gunshots, crows...

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    • By Aron 2023-09-29 08:21:35

      The effect of mixing the real with the fake is too outstanding,...

    • By Dylan 2023-09-28 21:42:46

      The scale is very large, except for discomfort, there is not much feeling; the empty scene is beautiful, but the plot is flat and straightforward, and there is not much sense of...

    • By Myrtice 2023-09-28 02:19:17

      The purpose of anti-fascism and the description of the depravity of the world can be related, but it is restored to a real image. The narrative strategy is mainly based on photography style, supplemented by magical and allegorical stories. For nearly 170 minutes, he explained the causes and consequences, experienced ups and downs, and even made some violence, mutilation and nausea. Next to the audience... The problem is that the plot and photography are contradictory. Black and white does...

    • By Talia 2023-08-05 18:47:55

      1221@EUFF-Poly Tiananmen: The truncated corpse of the widow's house is disgusting.

    • By Rosalee 2023-08-01 09:33:09

      Some time ago, I listened to the radio "Story FM" "The Autobiography of a Masturbation Addict", and the tragic experience of the narrator is sympathetic. But after watching this movie again, the first time I saw half of it, I really couldn't stand it. It's not that the movie is bad, it's just too cruel. The chaos of the war years produced all kinds of misfortunes, all of which caught up with the teenage protagonist. Because the war-torn youth walks on the edge of life and death and has gone...

    Movie plot

    When World War II breaks out, a young Jewish boy is sent to an unnamed Eastern European village to try to survive. In the process, the little boy experiences a series of atrocities. The local peasants were afraid that the little boy was the devil and tortured him in every possible way. There was even a time when a little boy had a fever and was buried in the ground by a witch on the grounds of "cure", hoping to reduce the fever through...
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    Rather than viewing the Holocaust as a phenomenon, The Painted Bird focuses on the ancient prejudices behind the Holocaust. This prejudice is something that people have always feared to know, but lurked in the deepest part of themselves. The contrast between the film's few Western actors and its many Slavic actors seems to add to its overall self-hating Slavic bias: the film is judging itself, but this Slavic masochistic introspection...
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