Screenwriter and director Petr Zelenka began filming the sequence Limity for ÈT
14/05/2024 10:46 3 days | editor | printing | opinions
How does a North Bohemian businessman turn out to be an icon of environmental protests and a marital dispute a societal battle? Director Petr Zelenka started capturing the eight-part sequence Limity in response to his theme and script on the College of Artwork and Design of the Jan Evangelista Purkyn College in Ústí nad Labem.
He selected Aleš Háma, Veronika Khek Kubaøová, Tatiana Dyková, Maxmilián Dolanský and Jaroslav Plesl for the primary roles. The sequence will seem on the Czech TV program subsequent 12 months.
“Petr Zelenka is undoubtedly one of the vital authentic Czech screenwriters. Inside his poetics, which mixes the absurd and the grotesque with merciless actuality, he doesn’t take any unequivocal place, he solely displays the time in all its contradictions and absurdities. The bounds present all of the confusion surrounding the issues of our planet and its air pollution – together with those that plunder it for the sake of financial development, in addition to their opponents with an more and more radical strategy to saving it. In all probability nobody expects a TV sequence to current a recipe for fixing the ecological disaster. However Limity raises questions and provokes us to search for solutions to them, and what’s most essential for me is the truth that Petr Zelenka does it in Limity in a really entertaining manner,” states ÈT artistic producer Kateøina Ondøejková.
▲ Filming of the sequence Limity. First clap L. Netušilová, N. Kylarová, P. Zelenka, M. Dolanský, P. Komínek (picture: Miroslav Kuèera, Czech Tv)
Petr Zelenka began engaged on the plot for the brand new sequence, of which he’s additionally a co-producer, virtually 4 years in the past. His Dabing Road, the primary sequence for ÈT, additionally awarded the Czech Lion, premiered six years in the past. “I discover it tough to seek out matters that I imagine in and that I might take pleasure in coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù state of affairs, I’m satisfied that now we have an important theme on this case. Limits are very topical when it comes to plot, the remedy of the story is authentic and stunning, and because it appears to me, on the identical time, the one attainable one,” reveals Petr Zelenka.
“The primary character is Karel – a man who simply and rapidly turns himself in, however on the identical time he needs to be very sort, as a result of from the start he solely does essentially the most unsympathetic issues. Step by step, nevertheless, he modifies his views on virtually every thing. After which there are the feminine protagonists, Karl’s ex-wife and his new companion, who do not come out of the story in one of the simplest ways, I am going to admit it right away. I do not know why it occurred to me like this, I’ve to pay extra consideration to it subsequent time and my subsequent undertaking will solely be about sympathetic feminine characters,” guarantees the director and screenwriter.
Within the function of an entrepreneur and an involuntary activist, the star information introduces the favored data competitors Kde domov muj? Aleš Hama. “As is usually the case in my life, my casting within the Limits can be a coincidence. One among my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My finest buddy, during which I’ve the primary function. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digital camera checks and at last provided me the function of Karl in his new sequence. As I say, coincidence received in Peter’s manner,” describes the actor and presenter. His sequence son Igor will likely be Maxmilián Dolanský: “Our household in Limity would not fear an excessive amount of about something. The daddy tries to flee from every thing. The son is passionate about collaborating in protest actions and tries to persuade his mother and father that they’ve a function. Maybe my character’s conduct is influenced by defiance of authority and a sure type of sullenness. After which love.”
Petr Zelenka’s crew is filming the eight-part sequence Limity unfold over sixty-five days, not solely in places in Ústí nad Labem and its environment, however will even transfer to Libochovice in Litomìøick or to Prague. The final flap ought to fall originally of August.
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