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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.
January 1, 1986
Filmové studio Barrandov
48 people
Marek Probosz
Ruda Aksamit
Acting
Zbigniew Suszyński
Vašek Kala
Acting
Miroslav Macháček
Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
Acting
František Peterka
Father Aksamit
Acting
Vladimír Hlavatý
Čepelka
Acting
Milada Ježková
Čepelková
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Josef Patočka
Elsner
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Oldřich Velen
Police Officer
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Jaroslav Tomsa
Policeman
Acting
Marta Vančurová
Rousová
Acting
Emma Černá
Keeper's Wife
Acting
Jana Švandová
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