Luděk Sobota

Acting

Luděk Sobota

Born 1943-05-27 · Prague, Czechoslovakia

Luděk Sobota (born 27 May 1943, Prague) is a Czech stand-up comedian and actor. He studied at Faculty of Theatre. He had his own theatre in Prague, Divadlo Ludka Soboty (Theatre of Luděk Sobota), which was located near the metro station I. P. Pavlova. He was in a comedy trio with Petr Nárožný and Miloslav Šimek. He is also known for providing voice-acting for the protagonist in the Polda video game series. He graduated from the transport industry school, then graduated from the Prague DAMU. Although he had the ability to play well and character roles, his own domain became a comic, especially author, based on his own texts and improvisation. He first recognized such a work in the collective creative spirit of the Ypsilon ensemble under the direction of Jan Schmidt, where he played since 1968. In the general public he became the main actor in the film Jáchyme, throw him into the machine !. Between 1973 and 1990, he worked in the Semafor theater in Prague, where he performed the type of his subtle whisper in the scenes with Miloslav Šimek and Petr Nárožný. A number of these sketches were also released on Panton's record labels. Between 2006 and 2008, he was conducting his own Prague Dive Theater in Pavlov's Square, where he was an actor, director and author, and played by his wife, Adrian. It was closed for lack of funds. Since September 2010 he has been starring in the TV comedy series The District Revolution as Václav Orel, where he serves as chairman of TJ Slavoj Houslice club. He is married for the second time. From her first marriage to Jana Sobotova, she has a son, Robert (* 1964). From the second marriage to Adrian Sobotova, he has a son Ladislav (* 1988). (Wikipedia translate)

Acting credits

Hearty Greetings from the Globe poster
6.9

​Two aliens stir up trouble on Earth in order to study humans. Misunderstandings ensue.

Hearty Greetings from the Globe

1983

Flying Saucers Over Our Village poster
6.3

A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.

Flying Saucers Over Our Village

1977

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Nebožtíci na bále

1980

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci poster
4.2

A crazy comedy, turning into a grotesque with a number of absurd elements, tells the tangled story of the over-the-top siblings Zuzana and Petr, recessionists who like to prepare harsh surprises for those around them, especially Zuzana's timid suitor Karlík. In addition to the hilarious Mr. Horák and the mannequin, the amateur ensemble Dalimil also plays an important role, tirelessly rehearsing an "avant-garde" performance of Jirásek's Lucerna...

Blázni, vodníci a podvodníci

1981

Okresní přebor – Poslední zápas Pepika Hnátka poster
6.8

Based on the popular television series Okresní přebor. As the title suggests, the film features the legendary figure of licensed coach Josef Hnátek. Since this man appeared in the series only as ashes scattered on the Houslice football field, the filmmakers decided to introduce him to viewers in his living form. The story of the feature film is set during his lifetime and explores the dilemma of a man for whom football is his whole life. Even more than life itself. The title role of the Houslice personality will be played by theater director, artistic director of Prague's Dejvické Theater, and occasional actor Miroslav Krobot.

Okresní přebor – Poslední zápas Pepika Hnátka

2012

All or Nothing poster
4.2

Linda and Vanda, two good-looking women in their thirties, are inseparable friends and co-owners of a small bookstore in the city center. Linda is divorced, educated and practical, has a little daughter and a sense of responsibility. Vanda, on the contrary, is single and free, attracting men as a magnet, but none of them is able to keep up with her spontaneity. Edo, shy, sensitive, and introverted gay working with them in the bookstore, longs for love for ages too. The lives of this trio get finally tangled by several men, while everything turns up differently than any of them had expected.

All or Nothing

2017

'Okay, Boss...!' poster
5.8

Láda Pitras (Ludek Sobota) and Oto Vacák (Petr Nározný) founded in the company Pragokov a Research department of recruitment of labor. For recruitment of workers in professions sought after both recruiters worked out an effective, often almost illegal methods. They followed secretly for instance the welder Niederle and managed to record his lovesick courting to his colleague Anicka. The fear of his jealous wife made him to join Pragokov.

'Okay, Boss...!'

1978

Joachim, Put It in the Machine poster
7.3

A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.

Joachim, Put It in the Machine

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Inzerát

1984

Fruit of Paradise poster
6.3

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of the loss of innocence.

Fruit of Paradise

1970

Bulldogs and Cherries poster
4.3

The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer through Vienna to Prague, which his Austrian colleague in crime recommended as a safe hiding place. None of them knows that the Czechs learned so much tricks under real socialism that a seasoned Italian professional is not enough to watch.

Bulldogs and Cherries

1981

Zázračný hlavolam poster
10.0

On one Sunday, when a scrap metal collection is announced, the children find a strange wire puzzle that grants every wish. Soon the town where the children live and go to school is in turmoil. But selfish adults, eager to investigate the mystery, destroy the spell...

Zázračný hlavolam

1968

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Malé dějiny Žižkova

2022

O chudém královstvíčku poster
NR

The mischievous princess Anka annoys her father and her surroundings with her original tricks. So as punishment, the devil Haramáš takes her to the robbers and she makes their pleasant life of robbery literally hell on earth. How the devils would like to return her to her royal parents now! But Anka decides that she must be properly freed from captivity. She gets a dragon and a prince and organizes a big liberation performance...

O chudém královstvíčku

1979

How to Get Daddy to Change poster
7.9

Adventures of the "How to Rip Whale Tooth" (1977) heroes continue... The story takes place in the countryside, where little Vashko's dad takes him and his mother, and where another surprise awaits them: not only an excellent holiday in the setting of a rock town, but also the figure of a grandfather, understanding all the dangerous beliefs in the turbulent surface of the renewed relationship of the three closest people. Vasek's other wish comes true - his dad teaches him the secrets of rock climbing. This shared passion, however, causes further conflicts between the two parents - much to the chagrin of both Vasek and his grandfather.

How to Get Daddy to Change

1978

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové... poster
6.7

For the Novák and Bartáček families, money is king, and they'll do just about anything to get it. While René Novák pitches his parents a lucrative scheme to swindle as many people with the last name Novák in the country as possible, the Bartáček clan decides to pretend to be much poorer than they really are in order to siphon some dollars from an American relative. And it doesn't take long before these separate scams start to intertwine.

Co je doma to se počítá, pánové...

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bandité

1985

Windstorm poster
5.0

A worker steals bits and pieces of building materials from work to construct a new home for himself and his girlfriend. When he discovers that she’s having an affair with his boss, he devises one elaborate plot after another to murder the rival, each time with pathetic results.

Windstorm

1967

Chyťte doktora poster
3.4

Gynecologist Michal is caught cheating and must deal with a tricky, almost classic, love triangle situation. In the comedy Catch the Doctor!, he will deal with it in several different ways. After his attempt to save his marriage does not go quite as planned, he returns to the beginning of the film, to the point of one decision, and starts over. Differently. A total of three times, viewers will return to the same place on the same day with the main character, and three times they will be amazed at what can happen.

Chyťte doktora

2007

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali poster
4.3

Vít Dolejší, popularly known as Vitoušek, monitors the groundwater in the underground of the National Theatre, and when he gets fired because the theatre will go to the nuns, he has no choice but to inherit the Richmond Hotel in Karlovy Vary from his American grandfather and the five million dollars tied up in its rapid reconstruction. At that moment, however, he finds himself caught in the web of intrigues of a wealthy ex-broker called Boss, the hotel manager and former Aesthete Křiváček, and the cunning lawyer Wagner. However, not only big money is at stake, but also the charm of the notorious gambler Alice, with whom Vitoušek falls in love and then shows everyone that he is not such a fool as everyone thought.

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali

1994

Us 2 poster
3.7

A love story of the 21st century. Hoping for change, Ema runs away from her family and leaves her husband. She hides at the apartment of her hairdresser, a gay guy Tony, even though she barely knows him. At the beginning they are merely two strangers, connected by their mutual effort of escaping from their families. They get closer and help each other to overcome the internal, as well as external, obstacles of their lives. Their liberating friendship almost becomes a love affair, despite the fact it cannot be fulfilled. This liberation creates an intense bond between them: a new escape, a new quest. This is a love story of two people and their attempts to escape the trap of their own desires of belonging to somebody.

Us 2

2014

Mstitel poster
1.3

Anton is, or rather was, a famous theater actor, but cruel life began to put treacherous obstacles in his way. For example, a chair or a hole, which you idiots should try to overcome after fourteen beers. When the theater director fires him and his wife wants him out of the apartment, Anton takes fate into his own hands. And he starts drinking even more.

Mstitel

2021

Lekce poster
9.0

During World War II, a German university professor creates a spy ring that supplies the Allies with information about Nazi plans...

Lekce

1972

Divoké pivo poster
3.5

A classic Czech comedy about the privatization of a small South Bohemian brewery. In a series of comical situations, good Czech police officers encounter the mafia, and honest citizens encounter swindlers. This amusing story, which of course includes a romantic subplot, is significantly influenced by fairy-tale creatures that suddenly emerge from the distant past.

Divoké pivo

1995

Behind the camera

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali poster
4.3

Vít Dolejší, popularly known as Vitoušek, monitors the groundwater in the underground of the National Theatre, and when he gets fired because the theatre will go to the nuns, he has no choice but to inherit the Richmond Hotel in Karlovy Vary from his American grandfather and the five million dollars tied up in its rapid reconstruction. At that moment, however, he finds himself caught in the web of intrigues of a wealthy ex-broker called Boss, the hotel manager and former Aesthete Křiváček, and the cunning lawyer Wagner. However, not only big money is at stake, but also the charm of the notorious gambler Alice, with whom Vitoušek falls in love and then shows everyone that he is not such a fool as everyone thought.

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali

1994

No artwork available
7.0

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1978.

Silvestr 1978

1978

No artwork available
4.0

The inventor and owner of the company "Neprasklo" (Unbreakable), Ing. Sýkora, wants to launch a revolutionary new product – unbreakable glass. However, his two greedy deputies have other plans – they eliminate Sýkora in the African waterfalls and attempt to sell the company to a foreign corporation. They replace the director with his doppelganger, the unsuspecting and unsuccessful extra Fanda Pažout. However, the villains have no idea that Sýkora is alive and returning.

Nebát se a nakrást

1999

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti poster
NR

A New Year's Eve television variety show from late 1979.

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

1979