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The Painted Bird
Directed by
Václav Marhoul
Not Rated
2019
2h 49m
Drama
,
War
,
and more
7.3
81%
71%
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A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
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Cast of The Painted Bird
Petr Kotlár
Joska
Nina Šunevič
Marta
Alla Sokolova
Olga
Udo Kier
Miller
Michaela Doležalová
Miller's Wife
Stellan Skarsgård
Hans
Harvey Keitel
Priest
Julian Sands
Garbos
Júlia Vidrnáková
Labina
Lech Dyblik
Lekh
Aleksei Kravchenko
Gavrila
Barry Pepper
Mitka
Petr Vaněk
Nikodém
Radim Fiala
Cossack
Jitka Čvančarová
Ludmila
Tim Kalkhof
SS Officer
Alexander Leopold Schank
SS Officer
Filip Kaňkovský
Merchant
Milan Šimáček
Mayor
Pavel Kříž
Avid Man
Dominik Weber
Luftwaffe Officer
Štěpán Havlín
Denisa Pfauserová
Zdeněk Pecha
Stanislav Bilyi
Ostap Dziadek
Peasant
Daniel Beroun
Marika Procházková
Marie Štípková
Martin Nahálka
Petr Jeništa
Irena Máchová
Josef Bedlivý
Tomáš Kraus
Ondřej Malina
Jan Monczka
Petr Klimeš
Alexandr Minajev
Petr Stach
Andrej Polák
Jan Meduna
Kryštof Rímský
Tereza Martinková
Filip Richtermoc
Erik Srbený
Jan Pavlíček
Jiří Slavík
Petr Ostrouchov
Ivo Proks
Martin Šanda
Josef Kůrka
Jakub R. Špůr
Klára Konvalinková
Karel Dvořák
Zdeněk Krupička
Pavel Rubín
Martin Kotas
Kryštof Peterka
Helena Bártová
Robert Bárta
Daniela Řepová
Václav Marhoul
Lukáš Marhoul
Tomáš Marhoul
Anton Šejvl
Lukáš Kapko
Antonín Mašek
David L. Price
The Painted Bird Ratings & Reviews
fraggle67
February 23, 2025
For nearly 3 hours, a boy suffers, animals suffer, poor people suffer, and Jews suffer. That's the movie.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Hard to watch and harder to forget, this searing adaptation of Jerzy Kosiński's bestseller by Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul spares nothing in showing the atrocities witnessed by anabandoned Jewish boy (Petr Kotlár) near the end of WW2.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
The film's emotional spectrum, a flat line of unyielding despair, is as limited as its color palette. And it settles into a pattern so dispiritingly repetitive (and repetitively dispiriting) it begins to resemble self-parody...
indieWire
David Ehrlich
The rest of the time it's more like a vulture picking at the carcass of history, and there's only so much meat on those bones.
Observer
Oliver Jones
All of this unvarnished evil is depicted with haunting beauty and uncompromising artistry.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Impressive on a number of levels ... most of them technical.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
The more likely question will be whether it was necessary for this film to adhere so closely to its source and chronicle a multitude of barbaric acts over its relatively long duration.
Esquire Magazine
Nick Schager
Few films are this tough to sit through-or difficult to forget.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
There's a style and breadth to some of its imagery that contradict and complicate its ostensible realism in memorable ways... But its methods notwithstanding, The Painted Bird's endgame falls short.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
Brutal, the film is. Very powerful, except for slight manipulation.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Angie Han
The effect is cumulative: you see how each successive horror really takes its toll on this kid and changes him. Impressively, it's done with little dialogue on [Peter Kotlár's] part.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
The Painted Bird is a potent, visceral but rewarding film for viewers who can withstand the onslaught of traumatizing moments.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
I must admit that staying with the film required steady purpose, but the experience, far from being numbing, was spellbinding. By the end there was no distance between me and the boy. I could see him thinking.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
"The Painted Bird" is a challenging film, impressively and proudly hard to watch. It's also just a little too easy.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
There isn't a whiff of pretentiousness to be found. Only guts and incredible visuals.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The Painted Bird is a bloody and bruised slice of life...
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
While Kosinski's prose renders the grotesque vivid by understatement, this adaptation often seems to have little purpose beyond literal-minded visualization.
AWFJ.org
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
It's a difficult film; upsetting, cruel, vicious and absolutely harrowing. But it is also probably a masterpiece
TheWrap
Robert Abele
It's always starkly compelling as a reminder of why war survival stories are essential to our understanding of innocence and beastliness.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
Václav Marhoul's film is at its most magnificent when it lingers on the poetry of its images.
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