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 principle roles. The sequence will seem on the Czech TV program subsequent 12 months.
“Petr Zelenka is undoubtedly one of the crucial 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. Most likely 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 necessary to me is the truth that Petr Zelenka does it in Limity in a really entertaining approach,” states ÈT inventive 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, nearly 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 subjects that I consider in and that I’d get pleasure from coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù script, I’m satisfied that we’ve got an awesome theme on this case. Limits are very topical when it comes to plot, the processing of the story is unique and stunning, and because it appears to me, on the similar time, the one attainable one,” reveals Petr Zelenka.
“The primary character is Karel – a man who simply and rapidly turns himself in, however on the similar time he needs to be very good, as a result of from the start he solely does unsympathetic issues. Progressively, nonetheless, he modifies his views on nearly every part. 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 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 venture 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. “Because it occurs in my life, my casting in Limits can be a coincidence. One in every of my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My greatest pal, through which I’ve the principle position. Then we went for espresso, he invited me to digital camera checks and at last supplied me the position of Karl in his new sequence. As I say, coincidence obtained in Peter’s approach,” describes the actor and presenter. His serial son Igor will probably 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 captivated with taking part in protest occasions and tries to persuade his mother and father that they’ve a goal. 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 places in Ústí nad Labem and its environment, however can even transfer to Libochovice in Litomìøick or to Prague. The final flap ought to fall originally of August.
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