Movie: Shades of Fern

Top 10 Billed 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

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1986-01-01

  • Average

    5

  • Rating:

    2.5 starts
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    Český
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