Shades of Fern
1986 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 165 VOTES · DIR. František Vláčil
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 718 lines
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00:00:40 Ruda!
00:09:34 The gamekeeper?
00:11:58 Just for a walk, I said. If she only knew it is for good.
00:14:38 Ruda, how can anyone do that?
00:18:39 And we'll make it to the papers.
00:21:32 Gloria oracionibus...
00:24:32 Don't you dare.
00:30:34 Well, Vaclav?
00:35:47 No countrywomen, those do not count.
00:39:33 The clothes will save us, Vaclav.
00:42:59 I'll write her. Just shut up.
00:46:00 You don't tell me anything. I say, it's bad in the woods.
00:48:20 What about the gamekeeper?
00:51:35 It's more difficult for the two of us. They know about us.
00:55:11 Help, is there anyone here?
00:59:09 Pour me one. And one for him.
01:01:53 Stupid people. They'll ruin everything.
01:04:22 Remember how we caught those three hares?
01:07:44 Or a beast will come and eat it.
01:11:22 -What policeman? -I saw it in my own eyes!
01:16:28 Ruda, there's something strange here.
01:19:53 Saturday, perhaps.
01:22:54 These are after us.
01:26:00 On another star, like here.