Quick facts
- Released
- January 1, 1986
- Runtime
- 90 min
- IMDb
- tt0176198
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Language
- Czech
- Studio
- Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast
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
Jana Švandová
Jiří Schmitzer
Zdeňka Sajfertová
Petr Skarke
Marjánka
Vítězslav Jandák
Policeman
Arnošt Böhm
Josef Pechanec
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Shades of Fern about?
- 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.
- Who directed Shades of Fern?
- Shades of Fern was directed by František Vláčil.
- Who stars in Shades of Fern?
- Shades of Fern stars Marek Probosz, Zbigniew Suszyński, Miroslav Macháček, František Peterka.
- When was Shades of Fern released?
- Shades of Fern is a 1986 drama, crime film.
- Where can I watch Shades of Fern?
- You can watch Shades of Fern with full details, cast, and streaming options on 3eyedraven.