Shades of Fern by František Vláčil
4.60
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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Cast
Marek Probosz as Ruda Aksamit
Zbigniew Suszyński as Vašek Kala
Miroslav Macháček as Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar
František Peterka as Father Aksamit
Vladimír Hlavatý as Čepelka
Milada Ježková as Čepelková
Josef Patočka as Elsner
Oldřich Velen as Police Officer
Jaroslav Tomsa as Policeman
Marta Vančurová as Rousová
Emma Černá as Keeper's Wife
Jana Švandová as
Jiří Schmitzer as
Zdeňka Sajfertová as
Petr Skarke as Marjánka
Vítězslav Jandák as Policeman
Arnošt Böhm as
Josef Pechanec as
Frantisek Stupka as
Jaroslav Špáňa as
Karel Vávrovec as
Jaroslav Vlk as
Soňa Novotná as
Karel Smrž as
Dobroslav Čech as
Bohumil Vávra as
Zdeněk Podhůrský as
Jitka Asterová as
Martina Bezoušková as
Vlastimil Drbal as
Karel Bělohradský as
Slávka Hamouzová as
Vlastimila Vlková as
Josef Blahož as Musician
Josef Čermák as Musician
Jan Forejt as Musician
Josef Fürst as Musician
Josef Kasl as Musician
Zdeněk Kesler as Musician
Jan Kopecký as Musician
Antonín Korb as Musician
Jaroslav Materna as Musician
Jiří Miloš as Musician
Vojtěch Říha as Musician
Jaroslav Šprunk as Musician
František Trnka as Musician
František Zikán as Musician
Ladislav Vacek as Musician
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