Personal Info
Birth date
1946-09-25 (78 Years)
Day of death
1982-05-09
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Also known as
-Petr Svojtka
Biography
Petr Svojtka (25 September 1946 – 9 May 1982) was a Czechoslovak actor. In 1968 he graduated from the Faculty of Theatre in Prague. He died in a tram accident.
Filmography
Radúz a Mahulena
6.25
Overview:
Radúz, the son of a Magurian king, has lost his way hunting in the territory of the Tatra King Stojmír. He learns from his loyal servant Radovid the reason behind the two countries' conflict. When Radúz's mother Nyola married his father, the rejected wooer Stojmír married the evil Princess Runa. Runa out of jealousy continually incites hatred for Maguria. Radúz and Radovid have only just crossed the border when an army commanded by Runa detains them. The white deer that Radúz has killed belongs to the youngest of Stojmír's three daughters, the beautiful and delicate Mahulena.Jezdec formule risk
NYR
Overview:
The story of a juvenile delinquent who, despite society's efforts to reform him, irrevocably ruined his life.Škaredá dědina
NYR
Overview:
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside. The protagonist and his family returned to their native cottage from the city because he could not find work anywhere. But his younger brother does not welcome him with open arms...Běž, ať ti neuteče
NYR
Overview:
The film from 1976, a film that is exemplary in its devotion to the canons of normalised cinema, is the work of director Stanislav Strnad. He brought to life the script of an unusual author - the secretary of the SČDU, Arno Kraus - in this psychological drama. The protagonist of the story also has his cadre materials in order according to the requirements of the time - he is a worker director Kabát, who besides problems at the workplace also copes successfully with difficulties in his private life - a break-up with his wife.Dárek
8
Overview:
Everyone says he is incorrigible... Little Robert is an only child who has everything, he needed to be responsible for something, to take care of something. At least that's what the roommate of the apartment building where Robert lives thought, and sent him a live guinea pig by mail. The guinea pig gets lost in the apartment and Robert, to the amazement of his parents, studies books about animals and is sad that he lost the guinea pig. Imagine the astonishment of his father and his colleagues from the design studio when the father finds the guinea pig in his briefcase...The Nun's Night
7.2
Overview:
A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.Choď a nelúč sa
NYR
Overview:
The dramatic story captures the hard and dangerous life of the partisan group "Čapajev" led by Ľudovít Kukorelli during World War II. It retrospectively presents the course of the Slovak National Uprising in eastern Slovakia.Arabela
8.3
Overview:
Arabela was a children's television series produced in Czechoslovakia which aired from 1979 to 1981. The series has 13 episodes and is in the Czech language.Střepy pro Evu
NYR
Overview:
This documentary-style story tells the story of an aspiring documentary filmmaker who is preparing a film about the history of glassmaking. He is honestly gathering information, slowly getting closer to an unknown and not always accessible environment, to people, whose actions he often doesn't understand because he misses their motivations... Shards for Eva is certainly not a skillfully wrought work, but it certainly impresses with its sense of at least partial capture of everyday reality.Nevěsta
NYR
Overview:
The female employees of the poultry-processing factory find relief from their monotonous work in chatting about weddings and marriages. The very young Zdena (Marta Vancurová), too, dreams about a white veil and an entourage of bridesmaids. On her return home from work, she runs into a peculiar man on an abandoned road who pertinaciously offers to read her palm for a few crowns to buy soup. His augury is rather usual - wealth and poverty, suffering and happiness. Then however, he declares that Zdena must marry exactly on 3 November of that year otherwise she will be unhappy.Thirty Cases of Major Zema
7.2
Overview:
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s. Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.Three Wishes for Cinderella
7.48
Overview:
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.Oddechový čas
NYR
Overview:
The drama of a man for whom work has become the only meaning of life. His cold and impersonal manner arouses the disapproval of his colleagues and family members and leads to alienation. Eventually, he realizes the need for "time out" to reflect on his own life...Bubny
NYR
Overview:
An anthology in three jazz-infused tales: an idealistic student’s romance with a pragmatic trumpeter; a vibraphonist’s urgent journey ending in tragedy; and drummer Honza’s moral dilemma as he confronts how far he’ll go to obtain his dream kit.Na konci světa
3.5
Overview:
In the 1950s, selected basic soldiers in a small border unit guard the western border with devotion, fighting intruders and uncovering their network of facilitators. It's a story of border guards that thankfully wasn't much of a political nudge, more of a tongue-in-cheek tale of young men at war and their joys and sorrows. And in between, they managed to catch a saboteur.Bitva o Hedviku
NYR
Overview:
In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this film, set in the interwar period, is a staunch communist journalist who arrives in the Ostrava region during the economic crisis to instigate a strike. The impoverishment and hopelessness of the miners had exceeded all limits...Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně
NYR
Overview:
This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided to hold a traditional ball despite the ban. However, they had to cope with conditions more than threatening: the presence of Nazi thugs who intend to execute captured partisans as a warning...The Secret of a Great Narrator
4.3
Overview:
The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not hide his admiration for this literary giant, and in addition to the screenplay he also wrote a three-part TV play about Dumas (starring Vladimír Menšík). In Kachyn's film, Dumas played the father and son of the Štěpánková brothers, and it was a very difficult and difficult task for these young actors.Maratón
6
Overview:
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.Acting
2000Příběhy slavných (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1982Spor dramaturga Stroupežnického as Jan Ladecký
1982Pouť králů (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Načasovaná smrt as Unknown
1982Propast as Hofman
1981That Instant, That While as MUDr. Valsa
1981Okres na severu (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1981Královská hra as Unknown
1980Arabela (8, 1 Episode) as Psychiatrist, (uncredited)
1980Inženýrská odysea (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1980Hodinářova svatební cesta korálovým mořem as Unknown
1980Oddělení zvláštní péče as Unknown
1980Zastretý farebný svet (2 Episodes) as Josef Štembera
1980Řekni mi to beze slov as Unknown
1979Dárek as Unknown
1979Prince and the Evening Star as princ Velen (voice)
1979Choď a nelúč sa as Unknown
1979Kufr plný nadějí as Unknown
1979Příbuzenstvo as Unknown
1979Střepy pro Evu as Camera Operator Ivan (voice)
1979Skandál v Gri-Gri baru as Unknown
1978Oddechový čas as Unknown
1977Rose Mary as Emil
1977Žena za pultem (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1977Básník, služka a král as Unknown
1977Běž, ať ti neuteče as Unknown
1977Historie lodě Bečky as Unknown
1977Dům Na poříčí as Unknown
1977Krása as Unknown
1976The Little Mermaid as Prince of the Southern Empire
1976Thirty Cases of Major Zema (1 Episode) as Drábek
1976Značka „Svobodný otec“ as Unknown
1975Na konci světa as Vojín Zdeněk Puchmeltr
1975Škaredá dědina as Štefan (voice)
1975Za volantem nepřítel as (voice)
1975Nejmladší z rodu Hamrů (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1975Poslední ples na rožnovské plovárně as Unknown
1974Klient as Unknown
1974Lovers in the Year One as Evžen
1974Josefina as Unknown
1973Three Wishes for Cinderella as Prince (voice) (uncredited)
1973Jezdec formule risk as Jiří Hudeček (voice)
1973Bratranec Pons as Unknown
1972Bitva o Hedviku as Unknown
1972The Secret of a Great Narrator as Unknown
1972Bakaláři (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1971Zlatá hvězda na cestách as Unknown
1971Radúz a Mahulena as Pevec
1970Nevěsta as Unknown
1969A Matter of Days as Kotalík
1968Maratón as Unknown
1967The Nun's Night as Karel
1966The Sheriff Behind Bars as Unknown
1965Bubny as Unknown
1964A Place in the Crowd as (segment "Místo")