Shades of Fern

Shades of Fern

1986
1h 30m
4.6

4.6/10

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Drama Crime
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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Production Information

Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
Czech

Keywords

based on novel or book poem period drama

Quick Facts

Original Title Stín kapradiny
Release Date January 1, 1986
Status Released
Language CS
IMDb ID tt0176198

Cast

Marek Probosz
Marek Probosz

Ruda Aksamit

Zbigniew Suszyński
Zbigniew Suszyński

Vašek Kala

Miroslav Macháček
Miroslav Macháček

Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

František Peterka
František Peterka

Father Aksamit

Vladimír Hlavatý
Vladimír Hlavatý

Čepelka

Milada Ježková
Milada Ježková

Čepelková

Josef Patočka
Josef Patočka

Elsner

Oldřich Velen
Oldřich Velen

Police Officer

Jaroslav Tomsa
Jaroslav Tomsa

Policeman

Marta Vančurová
Marta Vančurová

Rousová

Emma Černá
Emma Černá

Keeper's Wife

Jana Švandová
Jana Švandová

Key Crew

František Vláčil
Director
František Vláčil
Screenplay
Vladimír Körner
Screenplay