František Vláčil lost with the advent of normalization opportunity to work at Barrandov - in the former Gottwald, several medium-length films in which exercised its poetic perception of and experience with a child character. The legend of the Silver Fir was a screenplay by Vladimír Körner and tells the story of a boy from Beskydy forests, which romantically admires demanding and dangerous work of seed gatherers who come out every day into the crowns of mature coniferous trees