Shades of Fern

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.

Main Cast

Marek Probosz

Ruda Aksamit

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Zbigniew Suszyński

Vašek Kala

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Miroslav Macháček

Keeper / vagabond / beggar

Age : 68 | Popularity : 20%

František Peterka

Father Aksamit

Age : 94 | Popularity : 17%

Josef Patočka

Elsner

Age : 83 | Popularity : 9%

Vladimír Hlavatý

Cepelka

Age : 86 | Popularity : 18%

Marie Ježková

Cepelková

Age : 59 | Popularity : 3%

Oldřich Velen

Tutelary

Age : 91 | Popularity : 28%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	František Vláčil
Editing	Editor	Miroslav Hájek
Art	Art Direction	Zbyněk Hloch
Camera	Director of Photography	František Uldrich
Sound	Original Music Composer	Jiří F. Svoboda
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Theodor Pištěk
Department	Role	Name

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