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Shades of Fern (1986)

Overview

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.
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František Vláčil profile
František Vláčil

Director

František Vláčil profile
František Vláčil

Screenplay

Cast

Marek Probosz profile
Marek Probosz

Ruda Aksamit

Zbigniew Suszyński profile
Zbigniew Suszyński

Vašek Kala

Miroslav Macháček profile
Miroslav Macháček

Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

František Peterka profile
František Peterka

Father Aksamit

Vladimír Hlavatý profile
Vladimír Hlavatý

Čepelka

Milada Ježková profile
Milada Ježková

Čepelková

Josef Patočka profile
Josef Patočka

Elsner

Oldřich Velen profile
Oldřich Velen

Police Officer

Jaroslav Tomsa profile
Jaroslav Tomsa

Policeman

Marta Vančurová profile
Marta Vančurová

Rousová

Emma Černá profile
Emma Černá

Keeper's Wife

Jana Švandová profile
Jana Švandová

Marek Probosz profile
Marek Probosz

Ruda Aksamit

Zbigniew Suszyński profile
Zbigniew Suszyński

Vašek Kala

Miroslav Macháček profile
Miroslav Macháček

Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

František Peterka profile
František Peterka

Father Aksamit

Vladimír Hlavatý profile
Vladimír Hlavatý

Čepelka

Milada Ježková profile
Milada Ježková

Čepelková

Josef Patočka profile
Josef Patočka

Elsner

Oldřich Velen profile
Oldřich Velen

Police Officer

Jaroslav Tomsa profile
Jaroslav Tomsa

Policeman

Marta Vančurová profile
Marta Vančurová

Rousová

Emma Černá profile
Emma Černá

Keeper's Wife

Jana Švandová profile
Jana Švandová

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Release Date

January 1, 1986

Original Language

Czech

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Filmové studio Barrandov logo

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