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Final touches are being put on the adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel by the Czech producer and filmmaker. Philip Roth, considered one of the best American post-war writers, granted rights to shoot the final book of his Zuckerman Bound trilogy, The Prague Orgy, to Czech writer-director-producer Irena Pavlásková back in 2013. It marks the first time that a Czech filmmaker receives rights from a literary figure of such esteem and reputation. Besides producing duties, Pavlásková adapted the book to script and directed the film as her seventh feature-length offering. Her previous film The Photograph, a biopic of Czech photographer Jan Saudek, was the second most viewed domestic film of 2015. The story follows the protagonist of the trilogy and the author’s alter ego Nathan Zuckermann who arrives, as the title suggests, to communist Czechoslovakia in Prague in 1976 to help banned writers and rescue a unique collection of short stories...

Czech actor Karel Roden - who can be seen as Grigori Rasputin in del Toro´s Hellboy or as Viktor in Frankenstein´s Army - becomes infamous Czech photographer Jan Saudek in a film inspired by his life, The Photograph. Saudek´s complicated persona, which stirred several controversies, has been already investigated in the documentary Jan Saudek - In the Hell of His Passions, Paradise Unseen however director Irena Pavlásková here opts for a fictional feature aimed his passion and vice - women. "Life was fine, fun, occasionally blue balls," confesses the artist who co-penned the script. He is reputed for self-stylisation and love affairs whose subjects frequently posed for him. The dominant feature of his works are however Rubenesque ladies, a motive that will be prominent...

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