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.
Vojtěch Kopecký
Writer, Director
Petr Kotlár
Narrator (voice) / Self

Matěj Havelka
Voice of Joska (voice)
Tomáš Chlost
Self

Jitka Čvančarová
Self

Lech Dyblik
Self

Radim Fiala
Self

Tomáš Hanák
Self

Eva Holubová
Self

Filip Kaňkovský
Self
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