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Trailer: Václav Marhoul’s controversial Holocaust drama ‘The Painted Bird’

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THE PAINTED BIRD (IFC Films)

One of the most controversial films to come out the 2019 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird, has an official trailer ahead of its theatrical release in April.

Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosiński novel, The Painted Bird is a meticulous 35mm black and white evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War I as it follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. Some of the film’s more brutal scenes led to walkouts from audiences at the Venice, Toronto and London film festivals. It is the first film to feature the Interslavic language and was on the shortlist for this year’s International Feature Film Oscar.

Review: ‘The Painted Bird’ is an uncompromisingly daring and breathtaking work

The Painted Bird stars Petr Kotlár, Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Barry Pepper, Julian Sands, Udo Kier, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Cvancarová, and Aleksey Kravchenko and lands in select theaters on April 17 from IFC Films.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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