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THE PAINTED BIRD

Nabarvené ptáce

Directed by Václav Marhoul
Czechia, Ukraine, 2019
Drama, War
  • 170170 minutes

Synopsis

Joska is entrusted by his Jewish parents to a foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. The boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside. He encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy.

Synopsis

Joska is entrusted by his Jewish parents to a foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. The boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside. He encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy.