Elegance molekuly

Elegance molekuly (2024)

Drama

It is often only a few hundred meters from the chemical laboratory to the nearest pharmacy. But on this journey, the drug molecule undergoes a process worth hundreds of millions of dollars, often involving thousands of people. That is, the molecule that is lucky enough to reach its destination. The play Elegance of the Molecule follows three such substances and their three "fathers," one of whom was the brilliant Czech chemist Professor Antonín Holý. It explores the creation and dramatic industrial development of substances from Czech chemical laboratories that today treat AIDS in more than sixty percent of patients worldwide. Otto Wichterle had his famous story about how he built a device for centrifuging the first contact lenses using a Merkur construction kit. Petr Zelenka's play looks for such a "Merkur" in the life of chemist Antonín Holý.

Director: Petr Zelenka

Casts

	Ivan Trojan as John C. Martin
	Veronika Khek Kubařová as Rosemary Martin, jeho žena
	Martin Myšička as Antonín Holý
	Zdeňka Žádníková Volencová as Ludmila Holá, jeho žena
	Pavel Šimčík as Erik de Clercq
	Petr Vršek as Ivan Rosenberg / Petr Alexander / Zdeněk Hlavas
	Vladimír Polívka as Michael Riordan
	Václav Jiráček as Donald Rumsfeld
	Elizaveta Maximová as Pavla, novinářka
	Lada Jelínková as Jane / Hana

Crew