Petr Ostrouchov

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

In 1940s Prague, a former Nazi prisoner returns to run his posh hair salon and struggles with family, the rise of communism and his past.

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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.

What can keep you alive when the whole world is against you and you're still a child? Not much. Ema Černá, the heroine of a story inspired by real events, overcomes the hardships of a children's home, foster care, and juvenile detention on her journey. The most important part of her will to survive is her belief in herself, her belief that somewhere far away, perhaps even in America, there is someone who cares about her.

The ancient biblical story of the construction and fall of the Tower of Babel, tragic fates, intolerance, but also the search for love and hope in a television recording of a musical by the Brno City Theater.