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Shades of Fern

01/01/1986

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1hr 30min

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Drama

STORY

Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Marek Probosz
  • Zbigniew Suszyński
  • Miroslav Macháček
  • František Peterka
  • Vladimír Hlavatý

    Directors

  • František Vláčil
  • Aleš Dospiva
  • Ondřej Balík

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Filmové studio Barrandov

    Production Countries

  • Czechoslovakia

LANGUAGES

  • Czech

Cast

Marek Probosz

Ruda Aksamit

Zbigniew Suszyński

Vašek Kala

Miroslav Macháček

Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

František Peterka

Father Aksamit

Vladimír Hlavatý

Čepelka

Milada Ježková

Čepelková

Josef Patočka

Elsner

Oldřich Velen

Police Officer

Jaroslav Tomsa

Policeman

Marta Vančurová

Rousová