Made in the shadow of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, this classic of the Czech New Wave was suppressed for more than twenty years until its release in 1990. A wild, avant-garde work typical of its times, Birds depicts a world devastated by war as it focuses on two crazy pals living in a deserted church who take in a female Jewish waif. The three try to recreate a sense of family and home, each devoted to playing the fool as a measure of distance from the horrors they have absorbed and from the madness of the world around them.