The light is visible only in the dark

The movie is based on the Jerzy Kosinski's 1965 bestseller “The Painted Bird”.

The Students Jury at the 76th Venice Film Festival have awarded the movie “The Painted Bird” with the Cinema for UNICEF Prize, whose aimed to award the movie of the festival that best suites the values of the respect to the children rights.

Movie Trailer. Vaclav Marhoul's “The Painted Bird” had world premiere in competition at the 76 th Venice Film Festival on September 3rd.

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ABOUT MOVIE

Release: 2019
Genre: Drama/War/Feature film
Length: 169 min.

World premiere: September 3rd, 2019

Countries: Czech Republic/Slovakia/Ukraine

Original title: Nabarvené ptáče
Original language: Czech, German, Slavic “esperanto”
English subtitles/dubbing: yes/no
Format: 35 mm, Cinemascope, bw

AUTHORS & CREW

Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosiński
Script: Václav Marhoul
Director: Václav Marhoul
DoP: Vladimír Smutný
Art Director: Jan Vlasák
Art Director (SK): Juraj Fábry
Set-up: Braňo Petráš
Editor: Luděk Hudec
Sound Director: Pavel Rejholec
Costume: Helena Rovná
Make-up: Ivo Strangmüller
Producer: Václav Marhoul
Co-producers (PubRes): Zuzana Mistríková, Ľubica Orechovská

FILM LOCATIONS

SLOVAKIA

CZECH REPUBLIC

POLAND

UKRAINE

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Czech Republic
- Silver Screen, s.r.o.
- Česká televize
- Eduard Kučera
- Certicon/Vladimír Mařík a Karel Kraus
- innogy
- Richard Kaucký

Slovakia
- PubRes s. r. o.
- Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (RTVS)

Ukraine
- Directory Films

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

Production Partners
- České dráhy, a.s.
- Ministerstvo obrany ČR
- Česká Podnikatelská Pojišťovna, a.s.

General sponsors
- Jan Dobrovský
- Jiří Rain
- Petr Žaluda
- Roman Bartuška

Sponsors
- Robert Bárta
- Daniela Řepová
- Jan Sýkora
- Evan Zohav Lazar
- Blanka Turturro
- Jaroslav Pejčoch
- Miroslav Jirounek
- Volvo Car Czech Republic, s.r.o.

CAST

Petr Kotlár
Stellan Skarsgård
Udo Kier
Harvey Keitel
Julian Sands
Barry Pepper
Júlia Valentová
Lech Dyblik
Nina Šunevič
Ala Sakalova
Aleksej Kravčenko
Petr Vaněk
Jitka Čvančarová
Zdeněk Pecha

and others