Shades of Fern 1986
6.9 / 10
Shades of Fern
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.
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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... Ruda Aksamit
... Vašek Kala
... Keeper / vagabond / beggar
... Father Aksamit
... Elsner
... Čepelková
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Release Date:
Jan 01, 1986
Run Time:
1hr 30`
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Original Language:
Czech
Status:
Released
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Cast
... Ruda Aksamit
... Vašek Kala
... Keeper / vagabond / beggar
... Father Aksamit
... Elsner
... Čepelková
... Cepelka
... Cepelková
... Tutelary
... Policeman
... Policeman
... Rousová
... Keeper's Wife
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Petr Skarke... Marjánka
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Arnošt Böhm...
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... Unit Production Manager
... Production Manager
... Assistant Production Manager
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