Eureka Entertainment has released a UK trailer an dposter for director Vaclav Marhoul’s acclaimed World War II drama The Painted Bird, which is based upon Jerzy Kosinski’s controversial novel and sees young actor Petr Kotlar starring alongside Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper.
The Painted Bird follows the journey of a boy, entrusted by his Jewish parents to an elderly foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. Following a tragedy, the boy is on his own. Wandering through the desecrated countryside, the boy encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on the boy. When the war ends, the boy has been changed, forever.
The Painted Bird is set for release in the UK on March 27th 2020.
