When two former soldiers return home after World War I, they seek stability and love for one of the strongest Eastern European magical realism film masterpieces in history. Elo Haveta's second and final full-length feature film "Wild Lily" is one of the most outstanding works in the history of Slovak cinematography. This is an artistic translation of Vincent Sicula's literary works. The main characters are veterans who returned from World War I and want to find a home and settle down. However, their desire for freedom and homeless life is equally strong. Elo Haveta (1938-1975) graduated from the Bratislava Institute of Industrial Arts in 1957. In the early 1950s and 1960s, he participated in several original projects (picture theaters), which attracted and organized a group of young artists from various art fields. Havita is a prose writer and photographer who has served as an editor for visual arts magazines, graphic designer, and more. Since studying at the Prague Academy of Music, Arts, and Film in 1961, film has become his main interest. This is mainly because he believes it is the only way for his personal emotions and experiences to integrate with other art disciplines. Haveta participated in the relaxed creative atmosphere of the academy during a relatively fortunate period, and according to his professor Carol Kashina (a renowned Czech film director), his appearance quickly became the most outstanding in the course. However, despite his work at school attracting wider attention, there was no space for him to produce films at the main film studio after he returned to Slovakia - Koliba. Therefore, in 1967, he participated in the creation of Diapolyekran for the 67th World Expo (exhibition...), and from 1967 to 1968, he worked as an editor for a visual arts magazine in Smana. It was not until 1968 that he successfully completed filming in Coliba, but he only completed two feature films: "Botanical Garden Celebration" and "Wild Lily". Both titles have become treasures of Slovak cinematography. Through these movies, playfulness, improvisation, and spontaneity have permeated Slovak cinema. However, the screening of the latter at the Venice International Film Festival did not bring fame to Havita. On the contrary, it explicitly prohibited his works produced at the Coliba studio. From then on until the moment of his early death, Haveta only produced youth programs for the studio of Czechoslovak Television. In 1990, he was awarded the Lifetime Creativity Award at the Slovak and Czech Film Festivals in commemoration.