Luděk Sobota

Acting

Luděk Sobota

Born

1943-05-27 (83)

Place of birth

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Known for

Acting

Credits

78 titles

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 collectiv…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 4 titles

All or Nothing poster
4.4

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

Okresní přebor – Poslední zápas Pepika Hnátka poster
7.0

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

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

Tajemství staré bambitky poster
6.5

In a small kingdom where King William and Queen Olivia are perpetually away, corrupt councilors Ferenc and Lorenc exploit their power by piling on ever-higher taxes, only to have their unjust levies thwarted by the noble robber Karaba, who ambushes the tax collectors and returns the stolen money to the people. After the birth of his daughter Anička, Karaba retires his highwayman’s tools and resumes life as a humble potter, even as the royal couple welcomes a son, Jakub, and the ministers’ greed threatens to draw him back into defending the common folk.

Tajemství staré bambitky

2011

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 6 titles

How the Shoemakers Raised a War for the Red Skirt poster
NR

A fairy tale story about a young shoemaker Kuba, who had to go to Vienna to fight in the army, the arrogant princely steward of Kolomayzna, the water spirits, the Emperor himself and Stázina, who looked so pretty in her red skirt.

How the Shoemakers Raised a War for the Red Skirt

1990

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali poster
4.2

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
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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sportovní hry na Kozím Hrádku

1990

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

No artwork available
NR

Ivan Mládek's detective parody takes us to a private birthday party, which an eccentric count livens up for his own amusement by inviting the cream of television entertainment at the time. As the comedians leave this world one by one, the survivors pay tribute to them with recordings of their performances, which each of them was tasked with bringing as a gift to the birthday boy.

Deset malých běloušků

1993

1980s · 15 titles

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

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

No artwork available
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Románek za tři krejcary

1982

No artwork available
NR

The eponymous castle is the setting for three stories that gradually intertwine. Castellan Vašek offers a place to stay at the castle to singer Jana, who is trying to hide from her angry boyfriend. He is jealous of her and sets out to look for her at the castle with his bandmates. Local man Olin is looking for his wife, who is rehearsing a folklore performance for the village anniversary and has not arrived home, and due to a misunderstanding, he also searches the castle. The last actor is a thief who tries to steal a rare painting from the castle and has to flee from a polar bear. How will this confusion turn out?

Noc na zámku

1983

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

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

Únos Moravanky poster
3.5

The popular Moravanka brass band performs at the fair. Vasek Pivoňka, the bandleader of the local brass band Kulatěnky, which broke up, decides to put the band back together. The village musicians are sceptical at first, but later they start rehearsing with vigour. Standa, a Prague resident who is working in a pig farm to cure his nerves, helps them to organise the concert. He really likes Evica Kocourková, but her father keeps an eye on her. Young Šišák tries to charm the teacher Olina. Before the performance can begin, the band must succeed before the cultural committee. However, they fail to do so. The disappointed musicians play for themselves at the station and suddenly they are successful. Standa comes up with an idea how to push Kulatěnka through without the permission of the commission. A concert of Moravanka is being prepared in nearby Nechvalin.

Únos Moravanky

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karel Gott v Lucerně

1989

Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem poster
8.0

This wacky musical comedy builds on absurd ideas, parodic humour and many variously subverted references to famous...

Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem

1980

No artwork available
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Nebožtíci na bále

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Inzerát

1984

20 let Olympicu poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

20 let Olympicu

1983

Let the Princess Stay with Us poster
8.8

Modern version of Snowhite fairytale. Girl Katka is frustrated and restless. She escapes from home and find herself in the orphanage. Seven orphan boys hide her and call her "Princess". But Katka is soon uncovered and her frantic mother is on the way...

Let the Princess Stay with Us

1981

The Great Cheese Conspiracy poster
7.8

Three mice live in a cinema. One day, inspired by the gangster movies, they decide to conduct a grand robbery in a cheese shop.

The Great Cheese Conspiracy

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bandité

1985

1970s · 16 titles

Fruit of Paradise poster
6.2

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

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

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

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

No artwork available
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

1977

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

'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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ze Soboty na Šimka aneb Návštěvní den v divadle Semafor

1973

Let Him Face the Music! poster
5.5

School supply teacher timid folk art Ales Brabec won first prize at a music festival and will therefore offer to work for the Prague little theater in the basement. Its director Soukup just needs a few songs for the upcoming musical, and so is willing to do everything to Alex to create the right atmosphere for composing.

Let Him Face the Music!

1978

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
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Silvestr je za dveřmi

1974

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

We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling... poster
8.1

Mr. Novak tells a lie to his neighbor Mrs. Bartackova that her husband is unfaithful to her and that is how it all started.

We'll Kick Up a Fuss Tomorrow, Darling...

1976

No artwork available
6.0

Forty-year-old bachelor Vondráček lives with his mother, who is completely subservient to him and unable to confide in him about her late love. She is convinced that her son cannot do without her care and help. It is true, Vondráček has become too accustomed to the comforts of home. The selfish young man is complicated by an advertisement. He is not attracted by the acquaintance, but by the cottage. He likes Zuzanka, who comes to introduce herself, but even more so by the idea of ​​enjoying further comforts in the countryside...

Vondráčkovo pozdní odpoledne

1978

No artwork available
7.0

A legendary New Year's Eve special featuring Vladimír Menšík... Televised New Year's Eve programs hold a legendary status in the history of TV entertainment. Let us revisit one of the very best—*New Year's Eve 1977*—hosted by the outstanding actor and comedian Vladimír Menšík. He welcomes a host of stars from the worlds of acting, music, and television to the stage—including Miloš Kopecký, Karel Gott, Helena Vondráčková, Jiří Sovák, Miroslav Horníček, Luděk Sobota, Dagmar Veškrnová (Havlová), Vladimír Dvořák, and many others. You can be certain that you will be thoroughly entertained as the year draws to a close, in the excellent company of popular stars and brilliant humor.

Silvester 1978: Playful and Spirited

1978

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sláva, nazdar výletu

1978

Series credits

Bakaláři poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakaláři

1972

Ohnivý kuře poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ohnivý kuře

2016

We love Czechia poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

We love Czechia

2013

Český slavík poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Český slavík

1996

Zpátky se Sobotou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zpátky se Sobotou

2012

Zpátky se Sobotou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zpátky se Sobotou

2012

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Šaráda

1990

Stopy života poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Stopy života

2013

The Flying Cestmir poster
6.6

Young boy Cestmir finds a magic rock which allows him to bring the seeds of the flowers which allow flying from Blue Planet...

The Flying Cestmir

1984

Možná přijde i kouzelník poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Možná přijde i kouzelník

1983

Pra Pra Pra... poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pra Pra Pra...

2000

Paragrafy na kolech poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paragrafy na kolech

1985

District League poster
8.8

A comedy series set in the world of a rural football team, which follows one season of the SK Houslice football club.

District League

2010

The Invisibles poster
8.0

A businessman discovers he has a hidden gene that enables him to breathe water, threatening the existence of the secret Aquarian race, in this charming, comedic fantasy drama from the Czech Republic.

The Invisibles

2014

Kapitán Říp poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Kapitán Říp

2020

Na vodě poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

Na vodě

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Slané pohádky

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Noha 22

2011

Mazalové poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mazalové

2014

Pletky paní Operetky poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pletky paní Operetky

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zajíc v pytli

—

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Radovanovy radovánky

1989

Behind the camera

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

Ještě větší blbec, než jsme doufali poster
4.2

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
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

No artwork available
7.0

A legendary New Year's Eve special featuring Vladimír Menšík... Televised New Year's Eve programs hold a legendary status in the history of TV entertainment. Let us revisit one of the very best—*New Year's Eve 1977*—hosted by the outstanding actor and comedian Vladimír Menšík. He welcomes a host of stars from the worlds of acting, music, and television to the stage—including Miloš Kopecký, Karel Gott, Helena Vondráčková, Jiří Sovák, Miroslav Horníček, Luděk Sobota, Dagmar Veškrnová (Havlová), Vladimír Dvořák, and many others. You can be certain that you will be thoroughly entertained as the year draws to a close, in the excellent company of popular stars and brilliant humor.

Silvester 1978: Playful and Spirited

1978