Shades of Fern
Overview
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.
About Shades of Fern (1986)
Shades of Fern (1986) is a drama and crime movie produced by Filmové studio Barrandov in Czechoslovakia. It was directed by František Vláčil and written by František Vláčil and Vladimír Körner. On screen you will see Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszyński, Miroslav Macháček, František Peterka and Vladimír Hlavatý. With a runtime of 1h 30m, the film averages 4.8/10 across 12 TMDB ratings.
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