Ever since its festival debut in 2019, The Painted Bird has been called one of the most brutal Second World War films of all time.
The black-and-white film stars, among others, Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier, and is finally released in the UK on 27 March.
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Going by the reviews of Václav Marhoul’s adaptation, the Czech film doesn’t shy away from the horrors featured in Kosiński’s pages.
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