Shades of Fern
Drama
Release Date
January 1, 1986
Duration
90 min
Status
Released
Language
cs
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.
Casts
Ruda Aksamit
Marek Probosz
Vašek Kala
Zbigniew Suszyński
Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
Miroslav Macháček
Father Aksamit
František Peterka
Čepelka
Vladimír Hlavatý
Čepelková
Milada Ježková
Elsner
Josef Patočka
Police Officer
Oldřich Velen
Policeman
Jaroslav Tomsa
Rousová
Marta Vančurová
Keeper's Wife
Emma Černá
Jana Švandová
Jiří Schmitzer
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Marjánka
Petr Skarke
Policeman
Vítězslav Jandák
Arnošt Böhm
Josef Pechanec
František Stupka
Jaroslav Špáňa
Karel Vávrovec
Jaroslav Vlk
Soňa Novotná
Karel Smrž
Dobroslav Čech
Bohumil Vávra
Zdeněk Podhůrský
Jitka Asterová
Martina Bezoušková
Vlastimil Drbal
Karel Bělohradský
Slávka Hamouzová
Vlastimila Vlková
Musician
Josef Blahož
Musician
Josef Čermák
Musician
Jan Forejt
Musician
Josef Fürst
Musician
Josef Kasl
Musician
Zdeněk Kesler
Musician
Jan Kopecký
Musician
Antonín Korb
Musician
Jaroslav Materna
Musician
Jiří Miloš
Musician
Vojtěch Říha
Musician
Jaroslav Šprunk
Musician
František Trnka
Musician
František Zikán
Musician
Ladislav Vacek
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