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.
Year: 1986
Genre: Drama
Studio: Filmové studio Barrandov
Director: František Vláčil
Cast: Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszyński, Miroslav Macháček, František Peterka, Vladimír Hlavatý, Milada Ježková
Crew: František Vláčil (Director), Jiří F. Svoboda (Original Music Composer), František Uldrich (Director of Photography), Miroslav Hájek (Editor), Theodor Pištěk (Costume Design), Jiří Blažek (Creative Producer)
Runtime: 90 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1986
IMDb: 5.00/10 by 10 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Český
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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