Shades of Fern
Stín kapradiny
Release: 1986-01-01
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 4.6
Drama
Crime
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.
Production Countries
Czechoslovakia
Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast
Josef Patočka
as Elsner
Jana Švandová
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Vlastimila Vlková
František Peterka
as Father Aksamit
Soňa Novotná
Zdeněk Podhůrský
Martina Bezoušková
Jiří Schmitzer
Marek Probosz
as Ruda Aksamit
Zbigniew Suszyński
as Vašek Kala
Vladimír Hlavatý
as Čepelka
Oldřich Velen
as Police Officer
Emma Černá
as Keeper's Wife
Miroslav Macháček
as Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
Milada Ježková
as Čepelková
Jitka Asterová
Marta Vančurová
as Rousová
Vítězslav Jandák
as Policeman
