
Shades of Fern
Drama · Crime
Overview
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.
Top Cast


Marek Probosz
Marek Probosz
Ruda Aksamit
Marek Probosz
Ruda Aksamit


Zbigniew Suszyński
Zbigniew Suszyński
Vašek Kala
Zbigniew Suszyński
Vašek Kala


Miroslav Macháček
Miroslav Macháček
Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
Miroslav Macháček
Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar


František Peterka
František Peterka
Father Aksamit
František Peterka
Father Aksamit


Vladimír Hlavatý
Vladimír Hlavatý
Čepelka
Vladimír Hlavatý
Čepelka


Milada Ježková
Milada Ježková
Čepelková
Milada Ježková
Čepelková


Josef Patočka
Josef Patočka
Elsner
Josef Patočka
Elsner


Oldřich Velen
Oldřich Velen
Police Officer
Oldřich Velen
Police Officer
Jaroslav Tomsa
Jaroslav Tomsa
Policeman
Jaroslav Tomsa
Policeman


Marta Vančurová
Marta Vančurová
Rousová
Marta Vančurová
Rousová
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