Arts Director Petr Zelenka discusses new film inspired by Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Some critics have already called it the most notable Czech film of the year – Petr Zelenka’s “The Karamazovs”. Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel together with a famous long-running adaptation at Prague’s Dejvicke Theatre, the film opened in Prague on Thursday to wide anticipation. Layers within layers is one way of describing it as it focuses on actors performing the Karamazov story in a giant factory but it goes far beyond that, not only focusing on the actors on stage and off but also on one of the viewers. I sat down with the director a day after the film’s premiere and asked him to tell me more about the project’s beginnings and how it came to fruition.
Petr Zelenka, photo: Štěpánka Budková
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