Fifteen-year-old Roma teenager Martin is running away from home, hoping to start a new life in Prague. He ends up sharing a train cabin with an old man, who quite possibly might be traveling back to Prague for one final time. It’s an extraordinary meeting of two lonely people showing that diversity is something that should enrich and not separate people.
By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty long way round to be achieved... Funny fairy tale full of action, excitement, fun, magic but also love.
The protagonists are the same, only five years older: Kocourek (Tomáš Vorel Jr.) Kolman (Jiří Mádl), mother Kocourková (Zuzana Bydžovská), mother Kolmanová (Ivana Chýlková) and father Kolman (Jan Kraus). Kocourek applies to study graphic design at the UMPRUM. He has not been accepted twice because there is a great interest in studying at this university, only a select few are accepted. Mother Kocourková has long given up on the dream that her son will study something proper and that she will ever understand him, and so she increasingly talks to herself with a bottle of vodka. Kolman, meanwhile, is studying in his second year at the University of Economics. But instead of lectures and seminars, he is only interested in his classmates. He packs one after another. He solves his exams and credits by fraud or bribery. Kocourek, on the other hand, is conscientious and hardworking and falls head over heels in love with the enchanting Júlia, who is also applying to the UMPRUM.
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.
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.
Martina Gasparovič Bezoušková (* 9 January 1961, Prague) is a Czech actress and pedagogue. Between 1976 and 1980 she studied at the Secondary Medical School in Prague 1, a dental laboratory. After graduation, she was admitted to the Department of Drama Theater, Academy of Performing Arts, where she successfully passed in 1984 with the title MgA. Since 2014, he has been acting as a pedagogue at the DAMU Drama Theater Department. Since 2016 he has lectured at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague at the University of the Third Age, talking or not speaking. At the same time, from 2018, he teaches at Jan Deyle Conservatory and Secondary School, as well as at the Prague International Conservatory. In the theater and in the film were also mentioned as Martina Gasparovičová, Martina Gasparovičová-Bezoušková or Martina Bezoušková. From Wikipedia (cs), the free encyclopedia
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