Shades of Fern (1986)
1h 30m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
Shades of Fern (1986)
1h 30m
Running Time
January 1, 1986Release Date
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Plot.
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 & Crew.

Marek Probosz
Ruda Aksamit

Zbigniew Suszyński
Vašek Kala

Miroslav Macháček
Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

František Peterka
Father Aksamit

Vladimír Hlavatý
Čepelka

Milada Ježková
Čepelková

Josef Patočka
Elsner

Oldřich Velen
Police Officer

Jaroslav Tomsa
Policeman

Marta Vančurová
Rousová

Emma Černá
Keeper's Wife

Jan Otčenášek
Writer

Petr Skarke
Marjánka

Vítězslav Jandák
Policeman

Josef Blahož
Musician

Josef Čermák
Musician

Jan Forejt
Musician

Josef Fürst
Musician

Josef Kasl
Musician

Zdeněk Kesler
Musician

Jan Kopecký
Musician

Antonín Korb
Musician

Jaroslav Materna
Musician

Jiří Miloš
Musician

Vojtěch Říha
Musician

Jaroslav Šprunk
Musician

František Trnka
Musician

František Zikán
Musician

Ladislav Vacek
Musician

František Vláčil
Director / Screenplay

Theodor Pištěk
Costume Design

Jiří F. Svoboda
Original Music Composer

František Uldrich
Director of Photography

Miroslav Hájek
Editor

Jiří Blažek
Creative Producer

Josef Večerek
Set Decoration

Jaromír Švarc
Production Design

Roman Květoň
Assistant Production Design

Josef Čapek
Novel

Vladimír Körner
Screenplay

Jiří Ondráček
Camera Operator

Eliška Vojtová
Script

Václav Nývlt
Dramaturgy

Miloslav Dvořák
Property Master

Zuzana Máchová
Lead Costumer

Vladimír Ježek
Set Decoration

Aleš Dospiva
First Assistant Director

Ondřej Balík
Assistant Director

Miroslav Čvorsjuk
Assistant Director

Ivan Měšťan
Gaffer

Jarmila Benešová
Unit Production Manager

Magda Hájková
Assistant Editor

Štěpán Koníček
Conductor

Věra Mírová
Costumer

Jan Valkoun
Makeup & Hair

František Fabián
Sound

František Havlíček
Makeup & Hair

Vladimír Vojta
Production Manager

Bohumil Vlach
Unit Production Manager

Eva Kulhánková
Assistant Production Manager

Miroslav Jirsa
Still Photographer

Blanka Haltufová
Makeup & Hair

Barbora Bílková
Clapper Loader

Slávka Hamouzová

Karel Bělohradský

Jana Švandová

Vlastimil Drbal

Jitka Asterová

Zdeněk Podhůrský

Martina Bezoušková

Bohumil Vávra

Vlastimila Vlková
Media.



Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1986
Original NameStín kapradiny
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
poem
period drama
based on novel or book
Wiki.
Shades of Fern (Czech: Stín kapradiny) is a 1985 Czechoslovak crime film directed by František Vláčil. It is based on a novella by Josef Čapek of the same name.
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