Petr Zelenka

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Petr Zelenka, Warsaw (Poland), March 23, 2006

Petr Zelenka (born 21 August 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is an award-winning Czech playwright and director of theatre and film. His films have been recognized at international festivals in Moscow and Rotterdam. In 2008, his film Karamazovi was the Czech Republic's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.

Career

An early notable work is a black comedy, Tales of Common Insanity (2004) (Czech: Příběhy obyčejného šílenství), which he directed at Dejvické divadlo. He received the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Play. The play was later staged in other Czech theatres as well as in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Germany. It was also published in English and translated to Russian.

In 2005 Zelenka adapted the comedy as a film, released as Wrong Side Up, which won two movie festival awards in 2006 and was nominated for six other awards. His second most notable play is Teremin, inspired by the life of Russian inventor Léon Theremin.

His 2008 film, Karamazovi, was the Czech Republic's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.

His 2010 election advertisement "Přemluv bábu a dědu" caused controversy as critics believed it was offensive against elder people^[1] and "an imperfect copy of Sarah Silverman's stand-up video."^[2]

Selected films

2008 - Karamazovi (screenplay and direction)
2005 - Wrong Side Up (Příběhy obyčejného šílenství, screenplay and direction), received the Critics Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival^[3] and the Don Quixote Award at Cottbus
2002 – Year of The Devil (Rok ďábla, screenplay and direction), FIPRESCI Prize at the Cottbus IFF, six Czech Lion Awards including Best film and Best director, Prize Trieste at Trieste film festival
2000 – Loners (Samotáři, co-author of screenplay)
1997 – Buttoners (Knoflíkáři, screenplay and direction), winner of a Tiger award at the Rotterdam IFF
1996 – Mňága – Happy End (screenplay and direction), won several awards at the film festivals in Cottbus, Plzeň and České Budějovice ^[4]

References

↑ "Mádl s Issovou v klipu nabádají: Přemluv bábu a dědu, ať nevolí levici!", CT24
↑ "Bez humoru ani bábu nepřemluvíš. Spot Přemluv bábu je nedokonalou kopií videa stand-up komičky Sarah Silvermanové", Marketing a Média
↑ "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
↑ http://www.czechcentre.org.uk/events/music/mnagazdorp.html

External links

Short bio plus info about Tales of Common Insanity at divadlo.cz (in English)
Petr Zelenka at the Internet Movie Database

Czech Lion for Best Director

Jan Hřebejk (1993)
Milan Šteindler (1994)
Martin Šulík (1995)
Jan Svěrák (1996)
Petr Zelenka (1997)
Vladimír Michálek (1998)
Saša Gedeon (1999)
Jan Hřebejk (2000)
Jan Svěrák (2001)
Petr Zelenka (2002)
Vladimír Morávek (2003)
Jan Hřebejk (2004)
Bohdan Sláma (2005)
Jiří Menzel (2006)
Jan Svěrák (2007)
Petr Zelenka (2008)
Marek Najbrt (2009)
Radim Špaček (2010)
Zdeněk Jiráský (2011)
David Ondříček (2012)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 34753327 LCCN: no2003005408 ISNI: 0000 0001 1053 3220 GND: 133470385 BNF: cb15117799r NKC: jn99240001555

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Name	Zelenka, Petr
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Short description	Czech playwright
Date of birth	August 21, 1967
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