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 grow to be an icon of environmental protests and a marital dispute a societal battle? Director Petr Zelenka started taking pictures the eight-part collection Limity in accordance with 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 crucial 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 boundaries 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 progress, in addition to their opponents with an more and more radical strategy to saving it. Most likely 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 necessary for me is the truth that Petr Zelenka does it in Limity in a really entertaining manner,” states ÈT inventive producer Kateøina Ondøejková.
▲ Filming of the collection 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 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 tough to search out subjects that I consider in and that I’d get pleasure from coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù state of affairs, I’m satisfied that we have now an incredible theme on this case. Limits are very topical by way of plot, the processing of the story is authentic and stunning, and because it appears to me, on the similar time, the one doable one,” reveals Petr Zelenka.
“The principle character is Karel – a man who simply and rapidly turns himself in, however on the similar time he needs to be very sort, as a result of from the start he solely does essentially the most unsympathetic issues. Steadily, nonetheless, he alters his views on nearly all the pieces. After which there are the feminine protagonists, Karl’s ex-wife and his new associate, who do not come out of the story in the easiest way, I will 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 mission will solely be about sympathetic feminine characters,” guarantees the director and screenwriter.
Within the position of an entrepreneur and an involuntary activist, the star information introduces the favored information competitors Kde domov muj? Aleš Hama. “As is usually the case in my life, my casting within the Limits can be a coincidence. One in every of my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My greatest buddy, through which I’ve the principle position. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digicam exams and eventually provided me the position of Karl in his new collection. As I say, coincidence bought in Peter’s manner,” describes the actor and presenter. His serial son Igor might be Maxmilián Dolanský: “Our household in Limity would not fear an excessive amount of about something. The daddy tries to flee from all the pieces. The son is passionate about collaborating in protest occasions and tries to persuade his dad and mom that they’ve a function. Maybe my character’s conduct can be 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 areas in Ústí nad Labem and its environment, however will even transfer to Libochovice in Litomìøick or to Prague. The final flap ought to fall at first of August.
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