“Crime Series ‘Shadows in the Mist’ Returns to Ostrava for Season Two Filming”

The sixth part of the new series, entitled Samá voda, takes the investigators into the environment of farmers and veterinarians, for filming they chose a farm in a village near Bohumín. The filmmakers and actors returned to Ostrava after three years, and it should run on Czech television next year.

Serial investigators Magda Malá (Petra Špalková) and Martin Černý (Jiří Vyorálek) will solve other cases of the Ostrava police homicide department in the premiere twelve episodes. The filmmakers have already filmed several scenes in Ostrava and Český Těšín. So far this year, they have filmed in Dolní Lutyn and Bohumín-Vrbic.

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“In the second series of the series, we follow the first with an interval of about three years, which also means changes in the lives of our main characters. The criminal cases themselves will offer insight into different environments and social strata. More than from the underworld, we have prepared for the audience stories of ordinary people who have had something go wrong in their lives, or simply found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Ostrava agglomeration will once again be a photogenic and changeable witness to human smallness, envy or greed,” revealed creative producer Kateřina Ondřejková.

The author of the theme and screenplay is Zdeněk Zapletal, and according to director Radim Špaček, he manages to combine real cases with fiction this time as well. “The reasons for the crimes are very dull. Mostly it’s about jealousy, money, infidelity, and that would still be on the same hill.There aren’t many sophisticated criminals, as we know from professional police consultants. So it’s mostly fiction, but the eleventh episode, for example, is inspired by a real case of corruption in football,” reveals director Radim Špaček. “The main difference between the second series and the first is that the focus of interest shifts to the family of Magda’s sidekick Martin Černý, in a very sharp style,” he adds.

“We already know how to survive in Ostrava”

Jiří Vyorálek plays the role of Martin Černý, a divorced criminal investigator who was transferred to the Moravian-Silesian metropolis in order to be close to his teenage son. He revealed that during the first series he improved how to survive in Ostrava. “We all learned that. Ostrava works great in the series, the environment of Northern Moravia and Silesia beautifully underpins the individual stories. There is always something to discover in this region, you won’t find such an environment in Prague. So I’m looking forward to where the filming of the new episodes will take us,” admits the actor.

He is also currently working on the characters of criminal investigators while filming for Prima TV, where he will appear in new episodes of the Police series. “For a long time I was one of the last contemporary actors not to be cast as a criminal. That’s why I’m here now,” Jiří Vyorálek added with a smile during a break in filming.

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He praises his current stay in Ostrava. “We are a large group that went on a trip to Ostrava, we basically live a camp life,” he revealed.

Petra Špalková brings her daughter Anděla Ticha, who plays her daughter in the new series, to the filming in Ostrava in this series. “I’m lucky that Anđelka not only enjoys work, but also enjoys it. Filming is more demanding for us when organizing transfers on the Prague-Ostrava route and also when catching up with school. But we manage,” Petra Špalková confides, and about her character in the series, she says: “Criminalist Magda and I share perfectionism and a certain consistency at work. These are our common features.’

Shadows in the Mist on TV next year

The first season of Shadows in the Mist premiered at the beginning of last year, averaging more than 1.6 million viewers. Filmmakers have tentatively scheduled the filming of the second series over 135 days. New episodes could appear in the Czech Television program as early as next year. In addition to the already mentioned Petra Špalková and Jiří Vyorálek, viewers will also see the Ostrava actor Petr Panzenbereger, David Švehlík, Pavla Beretová, Pavel Batěk, Jaroslav Plesl, Jana Plodková, Marek Němec, Vlastina Svátková and others in the series.