“Secret inhabitants” of Planet Prague are revealed by a sample of a new documentary – ČT24 – Czech Television
The creators of the successful film Planet Czech Republic are behind the creation of Planet Prague. This time, too, he looks at the microcosm, the interest of which people often do not appreciate.
“Our main expert advisor, biologist Ondřej Sedláček, says with exaggeration that the Prague National Park should be declared. The urban landscape is more colorful than the landscape beyond the city. One of the ‘best’ is the fact that Prague is the place with the largest number of plant species in the Czech Republic, “producer Radim Procházka.
Together with director Jan Hošek and cinematographer Jiří Petr, they watched the flora and fauna both in the center of the capital and on the periphery. Thanks to filming during the pandemic quarantine, it was possible to obtain footage that a busy city would otherwise find difficult. The camera captured the nesting of a green-eyed hen in a sewage treatment plant, a group of male mouflons in the hospital grounds, or the birth of a bush mouse near Franz Kafka’s grave.
“Few would have guessed that Petřín, an island of greenery in the heart of the capital, is the exclusive home of the Great Dormouse, which may have lived here before humans. The Slatina Reservoir in Dubč serves as a lodging place for hundreds of thousands of Central Bohemian starlings. A relentless battle for food takes place in the Troja Zoo, where gray herons fly secretly to lunch. And then there is also the never-freezing Vltava in Prague, because of which some birds stopped migrating to them, “the creators of the other protagonists of the documentary reveal.
Planeta Praha is co-produced by Czech Television.