The Painted Bird
The deeply dramatic story about the immediate relationship between horror and cruelty, awarded nine Czech Lions. Opus by Václav Marhoul based on the book by Jerzy Kosiński.
In his first novel of the same name, set somewhere in Eastern Poland during World War II, Jerzy Kosiński tells an extremely bleak tale, in which, without emotion and seemingly without ethical restraint, he applies the themes of violence, torture and the degradation of man as actions that know no bounds. The director didn’t recoil at the controversy the novel incites to this day, transferring every part of the savagery to the screen, where he heightens it further with a black-and-white lens. The result is a physical film which makes for increasingly agonising viewing as we follow the young protagonist who passes through this hell, both as an observer and repeatedly as a victim. And it is this ice-cold rendering that paradoxically gives the film potency as a passionate cry against the insanity of war.
Read moreVenice Film Festival
2019 – Václav Marhoul (UNICEF Award)
Czech Film Critic Awards
2019 – Vladimír Smutný (Best Audiovisual Work)
Czech Lions
2019 – Václav Marhoul (Best Film)
Czech Lions
2019 – Václav Marhoul (Best Director)
Czech Lions
2019 – Vladimír Smutný (Best Cinematography)
Czech Lions
2019 – Luděk Hudec (Best Editing)
Czech Lions
2019 – Pavel Rejholec (Best Sound)
Czech Lions
2019 – Jan Vlasák (Best Art Direction)
Czech Lions
2019 – Helena Rovná (Best Costumes)
Czech Lions
2019 – Ivo Strangmüller (Best Make-up)
Czech Lions
2019 – Václav Marhoul (Best Audio-Visual Achievement)
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