Shades of Fern (1986)
- Genre: Drama · Crime
- Runtime: 90 min
- Released: 1986-01-01
- TMDB rating: 4.8 / 10 (12)
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
- Writer: František Vláčil, Vladimír Körner
- Music: Jiří F. Svoboda
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Marta Vančurová is a Czech theatre and film actress, one of the most prominent figures of the Czech stage. She spent many years at the National Theatre in Prague, performing in a wide range of classical and contemporary roles, and is also well known from Czech films and television productions.
František Vláčil was a Czech film director, one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century Czech cinema. He is best known for his visually poetic historical films Marketa Lazarová and Údolí včel (The Valley of the Bees). After the onset of normalization he was barred from working at Barrandov studios and made seve…
Miroslav Macháček (1922-1991) was a Czech actor and theatre director, closely associated with the National Theatre in Prague throughout his career. He is known internationally for his role as the fanatical knight Armin von Heide in František Vláčil's film Údolí včel (Valley of the Bees, 1967). He ranks among the most …
Marek Probosz is a Polish actor who also made his mark in Czech cinema. He played one of the lead roles in František Vláčil's film Stín kapradiny (1984), based on a prose work by Karel Čapek. Alongside acting, he has also worked as a director and screenwriter.
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