He dedicated his life to film, shooting with Karel Kachyňa and Miloš Forman
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Bobo Sobotka is a Czech visual artist and former film make-up artist. He was born in Prague’s Podolí on 13 September 1956 and grew up in Holyně. He joined the Barrandov film studio in 1971 as an apprentice make-up artist/wig maker. His mother worked there as a dispatcher and his father was a model maker in the special effets studio. He attended the Institute of Artistic Production in Žvahov in Hlubočepy for the first three years of his schooling, then completed his courses and certificates and began working in film. While working, he enrolled in evening high school to get a high school diploma. He worked in film from the 1970s on, mainly with director Karel Kachyňa on The Little Mermaid, Setkání v červenci and The Golden Eels. In 1989, he was filming About Family Matters Only, then began taking part in protests, and had also worked on the Oscar-winning Amadeus with Miloš Forman. Later, he shot The Devil’s Bride with Zdeněk Troška, and worked for several international film and TV series productions at the end of his career. He retired after 2016. He began painting; his works are exhibited in a private gallery in Smaragdová Street. In 2024, he lived with his wife in Prague.
