Where to watch Shades of Fern (1986) in the UK
Shades of Fern (1986) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 17 May 2026 by ScreenSearch.
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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Cast & crew
Top-billed cast in Shades of Fern.
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Marek ProboszRuda Aksamit -
Zbigniew SuszyńskiVašek Kala -
Miroslav MacháčekKeeper / Vagabond / Beggar -
František PeterkaFather Aksamit -
Vladimír HlavatýČepelka -
Milada JežkováČepelková -
Josef PatočkaElsner -
Oldřich VelenPolice Officer
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