The Legend of the Silver Fir (1973)
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 55 min
- Released: 1973-12-28
- TMDB rating: 6.8 / 10 (4)
According to one Beskydy Mountains legend, if you do a good deed you will see silver trees. Little Ondra knows trees like that. In his family's cottage hangs a picture showing silver firs, a person falling from a height and a watch. In art lessons Ondra paints trees of the same kind. - One day Lojzek Hojgr, a man who climbs fir trees to gather the seeds, comes to see Ondra's parents. Long-ago Ondra's father has had such a job and Lojzek is his long-time friend. Hojgr moves into a half-ruined wood cabin. Ondra's father takes him on a visit to Lojzek and both demonstrate the beautiful but dangerous work of seed-gathering to the boy.
- Director: František Vláčil
- Writer: František Vláčil, Vladimír Körner
- Music: Zdeněk Liška
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František Vláčil was a Czech film director, one of the most distinctive voices in 20th-century Czech cinema. He is best known for his visually poetic historical films Marketa Lazarová and Údolí včel (The Valley of the Bees). After the onset of normalization he was barred from working at Barrandov studios and made seve…
Július Vašek (* December 29, 1926, Nové Zámky - † May 1, 2009, Bratislava) was a Slovak actor. After finishing acting at the Bratislava Conservatory in 1954, he made his debut with the film Wooden Village, which was an adaptation of František Heček's novel. He has acted in more than fifty films. He mostly portrayed ne…
Jiří Hálek, his native name Hugo Frischmann (* September 10, 1930 in Prague) is a Czech actor. After studying at DAMU in Prague, he first worked briefly in Ostrava at the Municipal Youth Theater, [2] then served basic military service in the army ensemble "Winning Wings", after playing military service in Mladá Bolesl…
Vladimír Körner is a Czech writer and screenwriter known for his poetic and melancholic treatment of history and the human condition. He had a long creative partnership with director František Vláčil, producing works such as the film Údolí včel (Valley of the Bees, 1967). His scripts are noted for their lyrical langua…
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