Ljubiša Samardžić
Acting
Biography
Ljubiša Samardžić (1936-2017), sometimes referred to as Smoki or Smoki Samardi, was a Serbian actor and director. Nowadays he is perhaps best known as Šurda in the Yugoslav TV series 'Vruć Vetar'. Born to the family of a coal miner, his acting talent was discovered very early and he won a scholarship with respected director Bojan Stupica. After graduating from the Belgrade Drama Arts Academy, he obtained a role in Igre na skelama (1961). Samardžić was a member of the Central Committee of Yugoslav Communist Party in late 1980s.
Born: November 19, 1936
Place of Birth: Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
Known For
Visa for the Future
One of the first post-Independence Bosnian sitcoms. Production started on June 22, 2001 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The final episode was filmed in Sarajevo on August 25, 2008 and aired in October. It eventually became one of the region's most popular sitcoms.
Evening School
A Croatian comedy show hosted by Željko Pervan that originally aired on OTV between 1995 and 1998, and later on Nova TV and HRT. It is largely improvisational and spontaneous, featuring Pervan as a teacher to a group of students, debating various political and societal problems.
Hot Wind
Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.
Premeditated Murder
Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogdan, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogdan recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.
Where the Wild Boars Go
It happens around Zagreb in 1941-1943, during World War II. Two groups of smugglers led by Crni Rok and Veriga, fight for supremacy on the black market. They also have to deal with the Germans, Ustashas, the police and communist illegals.
Migrations II
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The second topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.
Life Is Beautiful
After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence.
Don't Come Back by the Same Way
The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".
Eagles Fly Early
A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a teacher who got his nickname because of his red nose. Soon they formed a brigand division, but have been discovered and caught. The sudden arrival of year 1941 turns their game into reality.
Policajac sa Petlovog brda
The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring father.
Filmography
as Himself
as Deda
as Deda
as Marijin otac
as Marijin otac
as Himself
as Milan Golijanin
as Vlasnik hotela
as Profesor Lane Šekularac
as Milivoj
as Bora
as Vidosav
as Jovo 'Skandal'
as Rade
as Limijer
as Boško
as Žika Ajkula
as Sreten
as Trifun Isaković
as Miodrag Krtalić
as Poštar Đoka
as Uroš
as Staniša
as Kapetan Tadić
as Komandant
as Baca
as Toša Palidrvce
as Dragan
as Kelner
as Siniša Pantić
as Glenov otac
as Stipe
as Valentino
as Ivan Sekulović
as Dragiša Kojić
as Bogdan
as Profesor Plavšić
as Lazar, učitelj
as Rajko
as Lampas
as Goluža
as Kerim, otac
as Siniša Pantić
as Toni
as Marko
as Ivo Goreta
as Gvozden
as Tole
as Borivoje Šurdilović 'Šurda'
as Siniša Pantić
as Milun
as Borivoje Šurdilović 'Šurda'
as Žare
as Milun
as Šorga 'Tigar'
as Sava
as Kosta
as Dr. Lazović
as Vojislav Trajković
as Cane
as Staniša
as Buzga Miročki
as Kosta
as Zis
as Kovač
as Stanojlo
as Tomislav Brodarac
as Zis
as Crni Rok
as Janoš
as Vitomir
as Sava Kekić
as Red Mitchell
as Novak
as Jasa (voice) (uncredited)
as Špiro
as Vojislav
as Ljubiša
as Reum
as Mladomir 'Mali'
as Šarac
as Markov pomoćnik
as Mali
as Ivan Stojanović
as Nikoletina Bursać
as Abdul
as Borivoje Jovanović
as Partizan
as Vice
as Milan
as Dragan
as Mitar
as Mikajlo
as Smoki