Watch The Golden Fern

Czech director Ji Weiss's breathtaking B&W fairy tale is one of the most unjustly neglected treasures of 1960s fantasy filmmaking with overtones of Cocteau's Beauty & The Beast. A handsome young shepherd (Vt Olmer) stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning forest fairy (Karla Chadimov) is sent to retrieve it but instead falls hopelessly in love with him.

The Golden Fern is a 1963 war movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 55 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.0.