The painted bird / director,Vaclav Marhoul.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Marhoul, Václav, 1960- film director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Europe--Drama.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Children--Poland--Drama.

Children.

Europe.

Poland.

Genre:

Biographical films

Drama

Feature films

Fiction films

War films

Feature films.

Fiction films.

War films.

Biographical films.

Physical Description:

1 Blu-ray disc (169 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Special Blu-ray edition.

Place of Publication:

[U.K.] : Eureka Entertainment Ltd., [2020]

Language Note:

In Inter-Slavic, Czech, German, Russian; subtitles in English.

System Details:

Blu-ray (Region B).

Summary:

"The painted bird" follows the journey of a boy, entrusted by his Jewish parents to an elderly foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. Following a tragedy, the boy is on his own. Wandering through the desecrated countryside, the boy encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy. When the war ends, the boy has been changed forever.

Participant:

Petr Kotlár, Udo Kier, Jitka Cvancarova, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands, Barry Pepper.

Credits:

Silver Screen ; director of photograhy, Vladimír Smutny ; written produced and directed by Václav Marhoul.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Special features: "11 colors of the bird" (125 min.) - a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible 11 year process it took director Vaclav Marhoul to create a film version of Jerzy Kosinski's controversial novel.

Based on the book by Jerzy Kosinski;

OCLC:

1352959954

Publisher Number:

5060000704037

MON70403 Eureka Entertainment Ltd.