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
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:40 Ruda!
00:09:36 How should I know? I was sleeping.
00:12:25 I wonder if the police have been to our house yet?
00:14:49 They want to show off. To ruin the day for the others.
00:18:55 The gamekeeper, Ruda, was not a big deal for us.
00:21:58 Stop it!
00:26:08 Climb in and be quiet.
00:31:34 I found just a few coins.
00:36:40 "Go ahead", I say.
00:40:45 We'll find a way, the three of us.
00:44:21 Can you see him?
00:46:45 But they'll get him. They'll get him for sure.
00:49:36 Forget about me
00:53:42 Those countrywomen are not worth it, all your hard work.
00:58:08 The red one.
01:00:46 The two are going to be hanged.
01:03:35 For good.
01:05:53 No you're not. Of course you're not.
01:10:17 Where is it?
01:14:19 Come on.
01:19:12 Both of us.
01:22:22 One Crown.
01:25:38 this one world...
01:29:20 They have avoided a punishment. That should not happen.