Jirí Weiss – Zlaté kapradí AKA The Golden Fern (1963)

THE GOLDEN FERN (ZLATÉ KAPRADÍ) – 1963, NFA, 115 min. Czech director Jiří Weiss’s breathtaking B&W fairy tale is one of the most unjustly neglected treasures of 1960s fantasy filmmaking, a hauntingly lyrical work with overtones of Wojciech Has’s THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT, František Vláčil’s MARKETA LAZAROVÁ and Cocteau’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. A handsome young shepherd (Jean Marais lookalike Vít Olmer) stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning, enigmatic forest fairy named Lesanka (Karla Chadimová) is sent to retrieve it but instead falls hopelessly in love with him. When he’s forced to join the army and heads off to war, she sews a seed from the fern into his shirt to protect him. While he’s away, though, he falls for the icily beautiful daughter of the commanding general (Dana Smutná) who demands he perform a series of Herculean tasks to prove his devotion to her. Director Jiří Weiss (1913 – 2004) was internationally acclaimed for dramas such as WOLF TRAP and ROMEO, JULIET & DARKNESS – here he worked with cinematographer Bedřich Baťka (who also photographed the legendary MARKETA LAZAROVÁ) to craft one of the most visually ravishing and hypnotic B&W wide screen fantasies of the era.

The.Golden.Fern.1963.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 51 min
Size: 	2.58 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x436 
Aspect ratio:  	2.35:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.280
Audio
#1:  	Czech 2.0ch AAC LC @ 159 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 160 kb/s (Commentary by film historian Peter Hames and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova of Comeback Company)

https://nitro.download/view/2569EBE8CD2293F/The.Golden.Fern.1963.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Czech, English
Subtitles:English