Shades of Fern
1986/01/01 • Released • Czech
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.
Director : František Vláčil
Casts
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
Marta Vančurová
Rousová
Emma Černá
Keeper's Wife
Jana Švandová
Jiří Schmitzer
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Vítězslav Jandák
Policeman
Soňa Novotná
Zdeněk Podhůrský
Jitka Asterová
Martina Bezoušková
Vlastimila Vlková
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