Release Date

01 Jan, 1986

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Stín kapradiny

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Actors

Marek Probosz

Zbigniew Suszyński

Miroslav Macháček

František Peterka

Vladimír Hlavatý

Milada Ježková

Josef Patočka

Oldřich Velen

Jaroslav Tomsa

Marta Vančurová

Emma Černá

Jana Švandová

Jiří Schmitzer

Zdeňka Sajfertová

Petr Skarke

Vítězslav Jandák

Arnošt Böhm

Josef Pechanec

František Stupka

Jaroslav Špáňa

Karel Vávrovec

Crew

František Vláčil

Theodor Pištěk

Jiří F. Svoboda

František Uldrich

Miroslav Hájek

Jiří Blažek

Josef Večerek

František Vláčil

Jaromír Švarc

Roman Květoň

Josef Čapek

Vladimír Körner

Jiří Ondráček

Václav Nývlt