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Shades of Fern( 1986)

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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.

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      Marek Probosz

      Ruda Aksamit

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      Zbigniew Suszyński

      Vašek Kala

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      Miroslav Macháček

      Keeper / Vagabond / Beggar

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      František Peterka

      Father Aksamit

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      Vladimír Hlavatý

      Čepelka

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      Milada Ježková

      Čepelková

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      Josef Patočka

      Elsner

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      Oldřich Velen

      Police Officer

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      Jaroslav Tomsa

      Policeman

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      Marta Vančurová

      Rousová

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      Emma Černá

      Keeper's Wife

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      Jana Švandová

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      Jiří Schmitzer

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      Zdeňka Sajfertová

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      Petr Skarke

      Marjánka

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      Vítězslav Jandák

      Policeman

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      Arnošt Böhm

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      Josef Pechanec

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      Frantisek Stupka

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      Jaroslav Špáňa

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      Karel Vávrovec

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      Jaroslav Vlk

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      Soňa Novotná

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      Karel Smrž

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      Dobroslav Čech

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      Bohumil Vávra

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      Zdeněk Podhůrský

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      Jitka Asterová

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      Martina Bezoušková

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      Vlastimil Drbal

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      Karel Bělohradský

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      Slávka Hamouzová

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      Vlastimila Vlková

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      Josef Blahož

      Musician

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      Josef Čermák

      Musician

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      Jan Forejt

      Musician

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      Josef Fürst

      Musician

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      Josef Kasl

      Musician

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      Zdeněk Kesler

      Musician

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      Jan Kopecký

      Musician

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      Antonín Korb

      Musician

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      Jaroslav Materna

      Musician

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      Jiří Miloš

      Musician

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      Vojtěch Říha

      Musician

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      Jaroslav Šprunk

      Musician

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      František Trnka

      Musician

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      František Zikán

      Musician

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      Ladislav Vacek

      Musician

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • based on novel or book
    • poem
    • gay interest
    • period drama