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The 76th Venice Film Festival - Screening of the film "The Painted Bird" in competition - Venice, Italy September 3, 2019 - Actor Udo Kier poses before an interview.

Video. First-ever movie in Slavic Esperanto premieres at Venice festival

Updated: 07/01/2025 - 14:59 GMT+1

Director Vaclav Marhoul said he specifically chose an invented language for the villagers' dialect. "I didn't want the villagers (speaking) Ukrainian or Polish or Russian or something like that because those people are really bad people," he said.

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