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 capturing the eight-part sequence Limity based on 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 primary roles. The sequence 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 sequence to current a recipe for fixing the ecological disaster. Nevertheless, Limity raises questions and provokes us to search for 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 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 search out subjects that I imagine in and that I’d take pleasure in coping with. After a number of years of engaged on the Limitù script, I’m satisfied that now we have an awesome theme on this case. Limits are very topical by way of plot, the processing of the story is unique and stunning, and because it appears to me, on the identical time, the one doable 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 good, as a result of from the start he solely does essentially the most unsympathetic issues. Progressively, nevertheless, he modifies his views on virtually all the pieces. After which there are the feminine protagonists, Karl’s ex-wife and his new associate, who don’t come out of the story in one of the simplest ways, I admit it straight 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 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 also be a coincidence. One in all my colleagues invited Petr Zelenka to the play My greatest pal, wherein 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 sequence. As I say, coincidence acquired in Peter’s method,” describes the actor and presenter. His serial son Igor will probably be Maxmilián Dolanský: “Our household in Limity does not fear an excessive amount of about something. The daddy tries to flee from all the pieces. The son is smitten by taking part in protest occasions and tries to persuade his dad and mom that they’ve a goal. Maybe my character’s habits can also 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 at the start of August.
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