The Painted Bird

The first cinema adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's well-known and rather tough novel Painted Bird made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The Czech Republic's Oscar nominee Painted Bird watches a lonely boy somewhere in the barren, primitive Eastern Europe towards the end of the Second World War. The orphaned Child goes from village to village, from farm to farm; he encounters ignorant, intolerant, cruel civilians and soldiers during his journey.