CZECHOPEDIA

Petr Zelenka

26. 4. 2010

He just "created" a videoclip with two young Czech pop movie stars, copying an original idea from American comedia Sarah Silverman, who made a funny spot asking Jewish kids to convince their grandparents to vote for Obama.

Petr Zelenka shares his famous name with an infamous Czech serial killer. After releasing the right-wing propaganda video, mocking old people's tendency to vote for leftist parties, he is being attacked by the Left for trying to kill them...

Zelenka was born August 21, 1967 in Prague, exactly a year before the Warsaw Pact troops came put an end to the so-called Prague Spring and Alexander Dubček's "socialism with a human face".

His best known work is the black comedy Tales of Common Insanity (Příběhy obyčejného šílenství), for which he received the Alfred Radok Award. The play was staged not only in Czech theatres, but also in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Germany.

In 2005 Zelenka turned the play into a film, released as Wrong Side Up.

His second most notable play is Teremin, inspired by the life of Russian inventor Léon Theremin.

In 2008 his film Karamazovi, was the Czech Republic's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film and was very well received by film critics.

Selected films

2008 - Karamazovi (The Karamazovs)

2005 - Wrong Side Up (Příběhy obyčejného šílenství

2002 -- Year of The Devil (Rok ďábla)

2000 -- Loners (Samotáři, co-author of screenplay)

1997 -- Buttoners (Knoflíkáři)

1996 -- Mňága (Happy End)

"Antigerontismus" - staří lidé v české společnosti | Mádl, Issová, Zelenka
Vytisknout

Obsah vydání | Pondělí 2.8. 2010