Shades of Fern
Shades of Fern

Shades of Fern

4.6

1 hr 30 min

1986-01-01

11

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.

Drama

Crime

Trailers

Characters

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

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