Screenwriter and director Petr Zelenka began filming the collection 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 taking pictures the eight-part collection Limity based on 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 primary roles. The collection will seem on the Czech TV program subsequent yr.
“Petr Zelenka is undoubtedly probably the most 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 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 vital for me is the truth that Petr Zelenka does it in Limity in a really entertaining method,” 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 tough to search out matters that I imagine in and that I’d get pleasure from coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù situation, I’m satisfied that we have now an important theme on this case. Limits are very topical by way of plot, the therapy of the story is unique and stunning, and because it appears to me, on the similar time, the one potential 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 variety, as a result of from the start he solely does probably the most unsympathetic issues. Progressively, nonetheless, he modifies his views on nearly the whole lot. After which there are the feminine protagonists, Karl’s ex-wife and his new accomplice, who do not come out of the story in the easiest way, I am going to 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 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. Certainly one of my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My finest pal, by which I’ve the primary position. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digicam checks and eventually supplied me the position of Karl in his new collection. As I say, coincidence acquired in Peter’s method,” describes the actor and presenter. His collection son Igor shall be Maxmilián Dolanský: “Our household in Limity does not fear an excessive amount of about something. The daddy tries to flee from the whole lot. The son is captivated with taking part in protest actions and tries to persuade his mother and father that they’ve a goal. 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 collection Limity unfold over sixty-five days, not solely in areas in Ústí nad Labem and its environment, however may even transfer to Libochovice in Litomìøick or to Prague. The final flap ought to fall at the start of August.
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