Shades of Fern (Stín kapradiny)

Ruda!

Ruda! What the hell!

Want me to show you how to move? Lazy ass!

Ruda.

-Good morning. -You two drones.

You two were looking for each other, eh?

Look at the quality.

Could hold an ox on a leash.

But Vaclav, this is not my cup of tea.

Go, finish it.

Now, look who we have here!

Got you, Vaclav!

Not yet.

Bastards.

It's me, the gamekeeper's wife.

Mr.mayor, my husband has not come back from the woods.

What do I do with the kids?

What if he got killed there?

Goddamit, missis, you're right.

You had every right to fear.

Look what they did to him.

-You won't take the roebuck from us! -Ruda! He doesn't feel it anymore.

Serves him right. For being a stuck-up.

Vaclav, let's go! Go!

Shit.

What good is a roebuck to us now?

Move it!

Left his mark on me. The bastard.

Oh my god.

I'm such a fool. Oh my god.

The gamekeeper?

How should I know? I was sleeping.

-Say it again? -What?

The sooner we'll be home in bed, the better for us.

Quickly.

Hey, are you blind?

-Good evening. -...evening.

Look at them.

-You little brats. -Holy Mother of Svatahora,

what a scare, I'm still shaking.

Quiet, you, these are Ruda and Vaclav Kala.

I guess they were messing with the gins again.

Yeah, I know Vaclav.

Damn old man.

And you?

"Good evening, mr.Cepelka".

"my pleasure".

-You flunkey. -Well we met them, didn't we?

So I just said hello, alright?

What's wrong with that?

One who sleeps,

does not walk in the woods.

It's in vain, my friend.

We're in it now.

Both of us.

Come.

I gotta hide this somewhere.

Come on!

Of course, my mom saw me, straight away.

"Where are you going?" she says.

Just for a walk, I said. If she only knew it is for good.

I didn't say goodbye either. What good is it, anyway?

I wonder if the police have been to our house yet?

Depends on whether they found him.

Ruda, how do they do it?

-Do they have a dog? -Sure they do.

Come on.

Come on, you wimp.

Let them try to catch us.

Mhm, I respect that.

It belonged to the gamekeeper.

-Better than my knife. -You bet.

They won't get us, my friend.

Remember that ... Podub.

The one who killed a girl in Hurky.

-They've been looking for him for two years. -But they got him in the end.

He let them catch him.

Bad conscience.

That's what it was.

Look at them, suckers.

Enjoying their trip.

Damn townies.

-They'll find the gamekeeper anyway. -That's a different story.

Dead people don't hide. Like we do.

The dead want to be seen.

Not all of them.

There are some dead, who hide themselves.

Like those who commit suicide.

Hide away in the attic. Or in a trunk of a tree.

And they find them after a long long time.

Ruda, how can anyone do that?

How can one hang himself, on a beatiful day?

There are such cases.

They want to show off. To ruin the day for the others.

Hm, that's some weird talk we're having, Ruda.

Nothing ever ruins my day.

Look at him!

Townie!

If you look at it from this side, Vaclav, we're on a trip too.

The nights taste like wine.

Nothing to do.

Flowers in bloom ...

Those rich people would pay anything to live in the woods.

To do what they want.

But they are scared.

A madman! Run away!

You see, who is the boss here?

-Vaclav? -Yeah?

Let's make an oath. Whatever happens.

we won't leave each other.

You know we won't, Ruda.

I swear.

It must be the gamekeeper's funeral now.

-Vaclav Kala. -Ruda Aksamit.

-Vaclav Kala. -Ruda Aksamit.

-Vaclav Kala. -Ruda Aksamit.

What are you waiting for, Vaclav?

Come at once.

Ruda, they will miss us back home.

Sure they will.

And we'll make it to the papers.

-You mean the newspaper? The radio? -Certainly.

The whole village is astonished.

The...

The gamekeeper, Ruda, was not a big deal for us.

But we are no ordinary people anymore.

-Not just like that. -We aren't.

You cannot compare that.

Yeah, we should have been born at those times.

Robber barons, you see?

Now that was something.

We could have been the masters of it all.

Well, our day is gone.

Ruda, please, don't.

Leave them alone.

Stop it, will you?

You're leaving traces.

At least we won't be forgotten.

Look, my friend

we're worth more than crawling through the weeds.

They will hear about us.

I can promise you that.

Look.

What about that one?

Shall we take his bags?

Let's wait.

Let's see what else the day brings.

There is someone.

-God bless you, young men. -Not easy, being a robber baron here.

With a great ding-dong, ding-dong.

Gloria oracionibus...

With a great ding-dong, ding-dong.

Gloria oracionibus...

Ding-dong.

Gloria oracionibus...

Stop it!

God bless you, reverend.

God bless you too, boys.

May God bless you.

Come on.

How is it going, miss Andulka?

My friend here says your name is Marenka.

And I say it's Tonicka.

I bet you are Ruzenka.

So come on, tell us!

Take us with you, so we don't get lost.

We don't know it here.

What a chick and she prefers that old man.

Excuse me, sir...

Nothing. Again.

Next time I'll hit them in the face, straight away.

Boy, you look like you've just excaped from the chains.

Well, you look the same.

Vasek!

Hey, Vasek!

Do you want me to get in there for you?

Ok, I'm coming.

Move it.

Hurry up.

Don't you climb in the hen coop with little Mirecek again!

Don't you dare.

Watch out so that he doesn't fall to the water.

Hey!

Hey!

-And leave the hutch alone, understood? -Alright.

And water the linen for me!

Come on!

Climb in and be quiet.

Vasek, let's go, we're waiting!

Take the hutch!

Coming, guys!

That's different from the forest air. So comfortable.

Shut up and move it.

Wait. Take the table-cloth.

And the sheet too.

Throw it on the ground.

Oh damn...

Can't you be quiet for a while?

Come on.

Come.