Gruesome adaptation of Holocaust novel 'The Painted Bird’ now on demand
In the 1960s, the author Jerzy Kosiński’s suggested that the novel — about a Jewish boy who witnesses sexual deviance and violence during World War II — was autobiographical
Stellan Skarsgaard, left, as Hans in "The Painted Bird."(photo credit: COURTESY OF IFC FILMS)ByCURT SCHLEIER/JTA
