Who Was Jerzy Kosinski?

This documentary explores the life of Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), a Polish-American novelist, best known for his novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), and focusing on his one-time friend Jack Kuper, director of this film. Kuper wrote a memoir called Child of the Holocaust, a tale of a boy on the run during the Holocaust. When he read Kosinski’s The Painted Bird he suspected plagiarism of his book. Kuper traveled to Poland to find out if the renowned Holocaust novel was indeed Kosinski’s true story. What Kuper learned subsequently provided him with a denouement to his investigation.