Shades of Fern
90 mins
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.
Jaroslav Tomsa
Policeman
Petr Skarke
Marjánka
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
Jiří F. Svoboda
Original Music Composer
František Uldrich
Director of Photography
Miroslav Hájek
Editor
Jiří Blažek
Creative Producer
Aleš Dospiva
First Assistant Director
Ondřej Balík
Assistant Director
Eliška Vojtová
Script
Vladimír Körner
Screenplay
Václav Nývlt
Dramaturgy
Jiří Ondráček
Camera Operator
Miroslav Čvorsjuk
Assistant Director
Jaromír Švarc
Production Design
Roman Květoň
Assistant Production Design
Miloslav Dvořák
Property Master
Vladimír Ježek
Set Decoration
Josef Večerek
Set Decoration
Zuzana Máchová
Lead Costumer
Věra Mírová
Costumer
František Havlíček
Makeup & Hair
Jan Valkoun
Makeup & Hair
Blanka Haltufová
Makeup & Hair
Magda Hájková
Assistant Editor
František Fabián
Sound
Vladimír Vojta
Production Manager
Bohumil Vlach
Unit Production Manager
Jarmila Benešová
Unit Production Manager
Eva Kulhánková
Assistant Production Manager
Barbora Bílková
Clapper Loader
Ivan Měšťan
Gaffer
Miroslav Jirsa
Still Photographer
Štěpán Koníček
Conductor