The Golden Fern

(1963)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 9 votes

Genres: War, Fantasy, History

Year: 1963

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Weiss

Cast: Vít Olmer, Dana Smutná, Karla Chadimová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Zdeněk Braunschläger, František Smolík, Čestmír Řanda, Otomar Krejča, Jaroslav Vojta, Josef Bek

Plot

Wandering through the forest, a woodcutter finds a golden fern whose seed turns into a beautiful woman - they fall in love. After getting drunk in a village feast, he gets to sign up to the army. The fairy gives him a shirt to wear and asks him to swear he will never abandon it. At the war front, he falls in love with the the colonel's daughter and will have to perform various feats to get her attention.