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 keeping with his theme and script on the School 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 yr.
“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 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 method 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 hunt solutions to them, and what’s most necessary to me is the truth that Petr Zelenka does it in Limity in a really entertaining method,” states ÈT inventive 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, virtually 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 seek out matters that I consider 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 now have an incredible theme on this case. Limits are very topical by way of plot, the processing of the story is unique and shocking, 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 shortly turns himself in, however on the identical time he must be very type, as a result of from the start he solely does essentially the most unsympathetic issues. Regularly, nevertheless, he alters his views on virtually every part. 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 will 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 position 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 in every of my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My finest buddy, by which I’ve the principle position. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digital camera exams and eventually supplied me the position of Karl in his new collection. As I say, coincidence obtained in Peter’s method,” describes the actor and presenter. His collection son Igor can be Maxmilián Dolanský: “Our household in Limity would not fear an excessive amount of about something. The daddy tries to flee from every part. The son is keen about taking part in protest actions 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 can even transfer to Libochovice in Litomìøick or to Prague. The final flap ought to fall at the start of August.
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