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.
Unfortunately the movie Shades of Fern is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | František Vláčil | Director |
Sound | Jiří F. Svoboda | Original Music Composer |
Camera | František Uldrich | Director of Photography |
Costume & Make-Up | Theodor Pištěk | Costume Design |
Editing | Miroslav Hájek | Editor |
Art | Miloslav Dvořák | Property Master |
Art | Vladimír Ježek | Set Decoration |
Directing | Aleš Dospiva | First Assistant Director |
Writing | Josef Čapek | Novel |
Directing | Miroslav Čvorsjuk | Assistant Director |
Crew | Václav Nývlt | Dramaturgy |
Art | Roman Květoň | Assistant Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Zuzana Máchová | Lead Costumer |
Production | Vladimír Vojta | Production Manager |
Camera | Miroslav Jirsa | Still Photographer |
Editing | Magda Hájková | Assistant Editor |
Lighting | Ivan Měšťan | Gaffer |
Production | Bohumil Vlach | Unit Production Manager |
Writing | František Vláčil | Screenplay |
Art | Jaromír Švarc | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Blanka Haltufová | Makeup & Hair |
Camera | Barbora Bílková | Clapper Loader |
Writing | Jiří Blažek | Creative Producer |
Crew | Eliška Vojtová | Script |
Camera | Jiří Ondráček | Camera Operator |
Production | Eva Kulhánková | Assistant Production Manager |
Production | Jarmila Benešová | Unit Production Manager |
Writing | Vladimír Körner | Screenplay |
Art | Josef Večerek | Set Decoration |
Directing | Ondřej Balík | Assistant Director |
Costume & Make-Up | Jan Valkoun | Makeup & Hair |
Sound | František Fabián | Sound |
Costume & Make-Up | Věra Mírová | Costumer |
Costume & Make-Up | František Havlíček | Makeup & Hair |
Sound | Štěpán Koníček | Conductor |