Shades of Fern
01/01/1986
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.
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Marek Probosz
as Ruda Aksamit
Zbigniew Suszyński
as Vašek Kala
Miroslav Macháček
as Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
František Peterka
as Father Aksamit
Vladimír Hlavatý
as Čepelka
Milada Ježková
as Čepelková
Josef Patočka
as Elsner
Oldřich Velen
as Police Officer
Jaroslav Tomsa
as Policeman
Marta Vančurová
as Rousová
Emma Černá
as Keeper's Wife
Jana Švandová
as
Jiří Schmitzer
as
Zdeňka Sajfertová
as
Petr Skarke
as Marjánka
Vítězslav Jandák
as Policeman
Arnošt Böhm
as
Josef Pechanec
as
Frantisek Stupka
as
Jaroslav Špáňa
as
Karel Vávrovec
as
Jaroslav Vlk
as
Soňa Novotná
as
Karel Smrž
as
Dobroslav Čech
as
Bohumil Vávra
as
Zdeněk Podhůrský
as
Jitka Asterová
as
Martina Bezoušková
as
Vlastimil Drbal
as
Karel Bělohradský
as
Slávka Hamouzová
as
Vlastimila Vlková
as
Josef Blahož
as Musician
Josef Čermák
as Musician
Jan Forejt
as Musician
Josef Fürst
as Musician
Josef Kasl
as Musician
Zdeněk Kesler
as Musician
Jan Kopecký
as Musician
Antonín Korb
as Musician
Jaroslav Materna
as Musician
Jiří Miloš
as Musician
Vojtěch Říha
as Musician
Jaroslav Šprunk
as Musician
František Trnka
as Musician
František Zikán
as Musician
Ladislav Vacek
as Musician
