Silver Screen

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives of director Václav Marhoul and actor Petr Kotlár weave their way through the various stages of the film's creation, offering their subjective views from the beginning to the last flap of a year-and-a-half long shoot.

Believing that there is no possibility of survival at the front, a Czech infantryman abandons his battalion and wanders through the Libyan desert.

Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city.