Screenwriter and director Petr Zelenka began filming the collection Limity for ÈT
14/05/2024 10:46 | editor | printing | opinions
How does a North Bohemian businessman turn into an icon of environmental protests and a marital dispute a societal battle? Director Petr Zelenka started taking pictures the eight-part collection 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 principle roles. The collection will seem on the Czech TV program subsequent 12 months.
“Petr Zelenka is undoubtedly one of the unique 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 collection 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 approach,” states ÈT artistic producer Kateøina Ondøejková.
▲ Filming of the collection Limity. First clap L. Netušilová, N. Kylarová, P. Zelenka, M. Dolanský, P. Komínek (photograph: Miroslav Kuèera, Czech Tv)
Petr Zelenka began engaged on the plot for the brand new collection, of which he’s additionally a co-producer, nearly 4 years in the past. His Dabing Road, the primary collection for ÈT, additionally awarded the Czech Lion, premiered six years in the past. “I discover it troublesome to search out subjects that I imagine in and that I’d take pleasure in coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù state of affairs, I’m satisfied that we’ve an awesome theme on this case. Limits are very topical by way of plot, the processing of the story is unique and stunning, and because it appears to me, on the similar time, the one doable one,” reveals Petr Zelenka.
“The primary character is Karel – a man who simply and shortly turns himself in, however on the similar time he needs to be very type, as a result of from the start he solely does probably the most unsympathetic issues. Progressively, nonetheless, he modifies his views on nearly all the pieces. After which there are the feminine protagonists, Karl’s ex-wife and his new companion, who don’t come out of the story in one of the best ways, I admit it immediately. I do not know why it occurred to me like this, I’ve to pay extra consideration to it subsequent time and my subsequent challenge 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 commonly the case in my life, my casting within the Limits can also be a coincidence. One in every of my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My finest pal, during which I’ve the principle function. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digicam checks and eventually supplied me the function of Karl in his new collection. As I say, coincidence acquired in Peter’s approach,” describes the actor and presenter. His collection son Igor can be Maxmilián Dolanský: “Our household in Limity does not fear an excessive amount of about something. The daddy tries to flee from all the pieces. The son is passionate about taking part in protest occasions and tries to persuade his mother and father that they’ve a function. Maybe my character’s habits is influenced by defiance of authority and a sure type of sullenness. After which love.”
Petr Zelenka’s crew is filming the eight-part collection 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 in the beginning of August.
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