Screenwriter and director Petr Zelenka began filming the sequence Limity for ÈT
14/05/2024 10:46 | editor | printing | opinions
How does a North Bohemian businessman change into an icon of environmental protests and a marital dispute a societal battle? Director Petr Zelenka started taking pictures the eight-part sequence Limity in line 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 primary roles. The sequence will seem on the Czech TV program subsequent 12 months.
“Petr Zelenka is undoubtedly some of the 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 progress, 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 hunt solutions to them, and what’s most essential to 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 sequence 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 sequence, of which he’s additionally a co-producer, virtually 4 years in the past. His Dabing Avenue, the primary sequence for ÈT, additionally awarded the Czech Lion, premiered six years in the past. “I discover it troublesome to seek out matters that I consider in and that I might take pleasure in coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù script, I’m satisfied that we now have an ideal theme on this case. Limits are very topical by way of plot, the processing of the story is authentic and shocking, 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 shortly turns himself in, however on the similar time he must be very good, as a result of from the start he solely does unsympathetic issues. Step by step, nonetheless, he modifies his views on virtually every thing. After which there are the feminine protagonists, Karl’s ex-wife and his new accomplice, who do not come out of the story in one of the best ways, 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 mission 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. “Because it occurs in my life, my casting in Limits can be a coincidence. One among my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My finest pal, wherein I’ve the primary function. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digicam checks and at last provided me the function of Karl in his new sequence. As I say, coincidence bought in Peter’s method,” 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 every thing. The son is keen about taking part 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 sequence 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 initially of August.
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