A Ballad About Green Wood (Czech: Balada o zeleném dřevu) is a 1983 Czechoslovak short film written and directed by Jiří Barta.
The firewoods place the rook's body on a pile of twigs, from which greenery grows and covers it.
Back at the original location, the man picks up the firewoods and rips off the green twigs before he goes inside.
[4] Jenny Jediny of Not Coming to a Theater Near You writes that the "fondness for the ancient and mythological" foreshadows Barta's 1986 film The Pied Piper".
[7] The film was shot in the Bohemian Forest, the High Tatras, the Koněprusy Caves and at Studio Jiřího Trnky in Prague.
He wrote that the video quality was poor; "probably the worst looking of the set"; and the audio "mixed a little low, as well".
[8] In Animation: A World History (2016), the scholars Giannalberto Bendazzi and Tommaso Iannini call it "a simple, short film of great impact".