11 reviews
Drama/Crime
1h 30m
1986
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...

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.
- DirectorFrantišek Vláčil
- Release1 January 1986
- Genre
- Duration1h 30m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate11 reviews
- Productions
Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast

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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