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Shades of Fern
1986, Jan 01
1h 30m
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.
Directed by
František Vláčil
Miroslav Macháček
Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
Marek Probosz
Ruda Aksamit
Vítězslav Jandák
Policeman
Jiří Schmitzer
Marta Vančurová
Rousová
Jana Švandová
Vladimír Hlavatý
Čepelka
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Martina Bezoušková
Emma Černá
Keeper's Wife
Jitka Asterová
Vlastimila Vlková
Oldřich Velen
Police Officer
Milada Ježková
Čepelková
František Peterka
Father Aksamit
Zdeněk Podhůrský
Zbigniew Suszyński
Vašek Kala
Josef Patočka
Elsner
Soňa Novotná
Jaroslav Tomsa
Policeman
Petr Skarke
Marjánka
Arnošt Böhm
Frantisek Stupka
Karel Vávrovec
Jaroslav Vlk
Dobroslav Čech
Bohumil Vávra
Vlastimil Drbal
Karel Bělohradský
Slávka Hamouzová
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
Musician
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