Shades of Fern

– Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most re..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.00 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 30 Minutes
Release Year:
1986
Original Name:
Stín kapradiny
Shades of Fern (1986) - Also known as Stín kapradiny

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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Release Date:

01 Jan 1986

Language:

Czech

Director:

Frantisek Vlácil

Writer:

Jan Otcenásek (story), Jan Otcenásek (screenplay), Vladimír Körner (screenplay), Frantisek Vlácil (screenplay), Josef Capek (fairy tale)

Main Actors:

Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszynski, Miroslav Machácek, Frantisek Peterka

Plot:

After a murder of a gamekeeper who catches them red-handed having just downed a deer, two teenage boys, conceited Ruda (Marek Probosz) and shy Václav (Zbigniew Suszynski) go on the run through the woods.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.9/10