Ljubiša Samardžić

Ljubiša Samardžić

Born: November 19, 1936
Died: September 8, 2017
in Skoplje, FYR Macedonia
​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.

Movies for Ljubiša Samardžić...

Waning Moon
Title: Waning Moon
Character: Deda
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A story about rich lady who invites a poor fellow to her house with intentions to marry him. He accepts her offer, yet it soon proves that the reason were his high debts, as well as prostitute he's secretly seeing. The story becomes more complex when the lady starts an affair with their gardener.
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Black Horses
Title: Black Horses
Character: Deda
Released: April 5, 2007
Type: Movie
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Theresia has designated their region of Banat to be the dungeon for insubordinate citizens of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Fortunately, World War One has interfered and ended the rule of the Austrain emperors, but many wounds have remained, wounds that bore spite and on the basis of which the people began their struggle to find their identity, to gain their freedom and land and a better life. That kind of surroundings, full of those ready to exploit others and retort to violence, where a man is torn between honesty and fraud, was my inspiration to make a modern film focused on love "the thing a man can suffer for; a thing you can give your heart to; and a thing that can make your heart stop".
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Goose Feather
Title: Goose Feather
Character: Marijin otac
Released: October 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Goose Feather (Serbian: Jesen Stiže, Dunjo Moja) was Serbia submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Vaguely based on a song By Djordje Balasevic called "Prica o Vasi Ladackom" (the story of Vasa Ladacki). The story is about a very poor boy that wanted abundance and wealth because he basically didn't own anything. He was in love with an equally poor girl that his father wouldn't accept. He moves to another village and starts drinking...
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Yu
Title: Yu
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The experiences and adventures of three “thirty-something” buddies who involuntarily find themselves caught up in civil unrest. At first it is simply a jaunt in their boss ‘Porsche’ which their “borrow” without permission to drive to Triest, however, it becomes an adventure.
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Pula Confidential
Title: Pula Confidential
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.
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Title: Visa for the Future
Character: Milan Golijanin
Released: September 22, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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From Every Man I Loved
Title: From Every Man I Loved
Released: February 5, 1999
Type: Movie
A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.
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Wheels
Title: Wheels
Character: Vlasnik hotela
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Nemanja leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a sudden downpour in a seedy hotel called The Wheel. The hotel is populated by seemingly upstanding citizens, until Nemanya is accused of being the notorious Laughing Monster, a serial killer who has been terrorizing the neighborhood.
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The Hornet
Title: The Hornet
Character: Profesor Lane Šekularac
Released: April 6, 1998
Type: Movie
A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
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Blues for Sara
Title: Blues for Sara
Character: Milivoj
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Private detective Emil Marlovsek can boast a wealth of solved cases of run away and lost dogs. He is assisted in his work by his secretary Beba and Milivoj, a retired officer of the Yugoslav National Army. One evening, Emil encounters the beautiful Sara in the bar where he occasionally plays the piano and falls in love at first sight. The next morning Sara disappears. Not long after he is paid a visit by entrepreneur Grubelic whose wife is missing. Emil soon realizes that she is Sara and immediately starts to search for her. He discovers that Sara is being held prisoner by the mafia, on account of her husband's fishy business involving people in high places. The story's outcome is completely unexpected.
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Yugofilm
Title: Yugofilm
Character: Bora
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croats. The film addresses the fundamental question "Can love survive between political enemies?"
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Premeditated Murder
Title: Premeditated Murder
Character: Vidosav
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Policajac sa Petlovog brda
Released: October 30, 1994
Type: TV
The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring father.
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The Awkward Age
Title: The Awkward Age
Character: Jovo 'Skandal'
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.
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Say Why Have You Left Me?
Title: Say Why Have You Left Me?
Character: Rade
Released: June 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...
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Three Tickets to Hollywood
Title: Three Tickets to Hollywood
Character: Limijer
Released: April 9, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His "strictly controlled" citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962. start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khruschev and J.F.K. have failed.
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The Policeman from Cock's Hill
Title: The Policeman from Cock's Hill
Character: Boško
Released: March 1, 1992
Type: Movie
The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring father.
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The Little One
Title: The Little One
Character: Žika Ajkula
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
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A Night at My Mother's House
Title: A Night at My Mother's House
Character: Sreten
Released: April 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian reality, its social and state decline. Their quest for the meaning of life proves to be nothing but failure.
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Migrations II
Title: Migrations II
Character: Trifun Isaković
Released: November 26, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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Poltroon
Title: Poltroon
Character: Miodrag Krtalić
Released: July 17, 1989
Type: Movie
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
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Tempting the Devil
Title: Tempting the Devil
Character: Poštar Đoka
Released: June 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Živko Nikolić continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temptation. It is basic human relation: from the intimate to the families' vying with each other.
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Uros the Stupid
Title: Uros the Stupid
Character: Uroš
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The Zivkovic family lives on a hilly village, on cleared part of land. Having many relatives, their lives are interlaced, and jobs distributed. Their biggest problem is a family that lives on the village edge and whose members steal, and Uros the Stupid, single and infantile Markovic family member. Contrary to the world of elders, Urosh and children lead their life of some kind. Suddenly, postman brings the telegram saying that some forgotten cousin from America has died and left two million dollars of inheritance. Unrest enters life of peasants. Everyone has some idea on how to invest the money, feeling at the same time that they don't need it. All of their actions will end differently from what they expected.
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The House by the Railway Tracks
Title: The House by the Railway Tracks
Character: Staniša
Released: June 6, 1988
Type: Movie
A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her mother. When they leave their home after the assault, their family tombs are desecrated, and the move to northern Serbia is marked by rejection by the local people of their new community.
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Extramarital Travels
Title: Extramarital Travels
Character: Kapetan Tadić
Released: February 18, 1988
Type: Movie
Tugomir, a student, wants to write a dissertation on Love, but fails to complete it before being obligatory drafted in the army. There, he succumbs to paranoia that his girlfriend is cheating on him. He decides to cheat on her too.
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Long Live Freedom
Title: Long Live Freedom
Character: Komandant
Released: October 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Old man Repovz recalls experiences of the WWII in an entertaining, comic way rather than tragic. A man breaks his arm to avoid being drafted; the other man shoots fire to scare enemy soldiers; love stories, as well as troubles with forced collectivization took place there. A partisan hero finds out that he lost her fiancee, but somewhat cheers up when his white horse comes back to him...
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Title: And That You Call Luck
Character: Baca
Released: July 5, 1987
Type: TV
A satirical comedy about corruption and intrigues in an export-import company.
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On the Road to Katanga
Title: On the Road to Katanga
Character: Toša Palidrvce
Released: May 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country with plans to sell his father's house in order to travel to the African diamond mine in Katanga. Re-visiting of his hometown brings back his childhood trauma, and the nightmare of the old and new love, the events in and around the mine, all put his obsession with Katanga on test.
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Guardian Angel
Title: Guardian Angel
Character: Dragan
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A journalist investigates the smuggling of gypsy children on the black market and tries to save a young boy.
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Volunteers
Title: Volunteers
Character: Kelner
Released: July 20, 1986
Type: Movie
In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops, which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures
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Protest Album
Title: Protest Album
Character: Paša
Released: March 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Events surrounding the life of a female pop star in which several men are involved as well. The story starts to develop when one of them kills her...
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Part-Time Divorce
Title: Part-Time Divorce
Character: Siniša Pantić
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
While heading to Spain to spend their honeymoon there, Siniša and Svetlana find themselves at Montenegrin coast due to mistake made by travel agency. They get back disappointed to Belgrade, where new problems expect them: Svetlana applied for an apartment, but divorced mothers with children are those who have advantage. Svetlana and Siniša decide to divorce for a part-time period so they could trick the housing board and get an apartment.
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Hey Babu Riba
Title: Hey Babu Riba
Character: Glenov otac
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
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Anticasanova
Title: Anticasanova
Character: Stipe
Released: June 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.
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Life Is Beautiful
Title: Life Is Beautiful
Character: Valentino
Released: June 3, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
Title: It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
Character: Ivan Sekulović
Released: March 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A divorcee and her three teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter some romantic (mis)adventures.
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Orchestra of One Youthhood
Title: Orchestra of One Youthhood
Character: Dragiša Kojić
Released: February 27, 1985
Type: Movie
True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.
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Jaguar Jump
Title: Jaguar Jump
Character: Bogdan
Released: June 28, 1984
Type: Movie
The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife and later sold to a rich American family. Our hero goes to America in order to find her.
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Watch Your Step
Title: Watch Your Step
Character: Profesor Plavšić
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Last school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from their friends, and there is also uncertainty, hope, plans, wild love "for the rest of the life", and parents with their ambitions, and it would be all incomplete, if not for professors who are slowly losing their authority. Senior prom is the central place for serious and funny events in which parents, professors and pupils are involved.
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Sugar Water
Title: Sugar Water
Character: Fotograf
Released: December 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject herself under nose surgery. Her best friend begins to observe her from different point of view.
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The Timok Rebellion
Title: The Timok Rebellion
Character: Lazar, učitelj
Released: July 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segments of his army. In order to remove that threat he disbanded militia. However, people of Timok Valley decide not to surrender their arms to the regular troops. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of the event.
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Rajko
Released: May 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The first soft core porn flick made in former Yugoslavia (today Croatia). It was a huge cause celebre for the participants and equally infamous for its innumerable shortcomings ranging from the lack of coherent plot-line to the most basic elements of film making. However, in time, it has gained a somewhat cult reputation. A priceless insight into an odd culture and its lax sexual mores and follies!
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Visitors from the Galaxy
Title: Visitors from the Galaxy
Character: Toni
Released: July 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
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Savamala
Title: Savamala
Character: Lampas
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: Movie
In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turbulent atmosphere, different passions collide, and there are hints that the bloody strikes are a prelude to a major battle. The young man tries to escape from the slums and live in a better society. He falls in love and draws comics, while Savamala offers him the misery of everyday life, the world of criminals, gamblers, anarchists, singers and failed poets.
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The Death of Mr Goluza
Title: The Death of Mr Goluza
Character: Goluža
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.
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Two Halves of a Heart
Title: Two Halves of a Heart
Character: Otac
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
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My Part-Time Dad
Title: My Part-Time Dad
Character: Siniša Pantić
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Siniša. Siniša's plans to marry Svetlana are ruined when her ex-husband comes back from Germany, persuading her to start their new life together.
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Broad Are the Leaves
Title: Broad Are the Leaves
Character: Marko
Released: April 2, 1981
Type: Movie
The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.
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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Ivo Goreta
Released: February 23, 1981
Type: Movie
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.
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The Train for Kraljevo
Title: The Train for Kraljevo
Character: Tole
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kraljevo a dangerous game for a secret communist agent carrying important documents. Both the Germans and the police are looking for him on the train, and his safe arrival in Kraljevo seems like an impossibility. His determination to get the papers to the right people keeps him going, even through a gun battle after the train arrives - challenging him to find a way to complete his mission.
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Some Other Woman
Title: Some Other Woman
Character: Gvozden
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.
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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Title: The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
Character: Borivoje Šurdilović 'Šurda'
Released: October 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. Incapable to accept any job that would suit him, he returns to his homeland in disappointment. Based on a popular TV serial "Hot Wind" ("Vruć vetar").
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Part-Time Work
Title: Part-Time Work
Character: Siniša Pantić
Released: June 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.
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Title: Hot Wind
Character: Borivoje Šurdilović 'Šurda'
Released: January 17, 1980
Type: TV
Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV series 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.
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The Battle of the Eagles
Title: The Battle of the Eagles
Character: Žare
Released: July 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.
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Boško Buha
Title: Boško Buha
Released: November 17, 1978
Type: Movie
The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugoslav Partizans after losing their families in WW2. At first, Partizans want to get rid of them, but later they are joining combat ranks. Among them, Bosko Buha would become a legend because of his skill in destroying enemy bunkers.
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The Tiger
Title: The Tiger
Character: Šorga 'Tigar'
Released: April 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meets a juvenile thief, Čok, and decides to become his father figure. In the process of changing Čok, Šorga changes himself.
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Aller retour
Title: Aller retour
Character: Sava
Released: March 24, 1978
Type: Movie
The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings, persecutions, and a constant struggle for survival.
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Arrive Before Daybreak
Title: Arrive Before Daybreak
Character: Kosta
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
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Foolish Years
Title: Foolish Years
Character: Dr. Lazović
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Teenagers Marija and Boba fall in love. When Marija gets pregnant, Boba's friends come up with a plan to help the young couple out.
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Special Education
Title: Special Education
Character: Cane
Released: April 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Title: The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
Character: Vojislav Trajković
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in capital, a boy will experience love in its full meaning.
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White Grass
Title: White Grass
Released: February 16, 1976
Type: Movie
When Dane returns from the army, Vera awaits him at the station, ready to live together with him. Yet beneath the veil of enthusiasm lies anxiety for their future. The couple sets off for the mountain village where Vera's parents live, but find life in the harsh alpine conditions too difficult. They decide to move down into the valley, where they meet a discontented couple whose marriage has been marred by an affair. Vera and Dane also encounter difficulties in their relationship, but the tragic example of the other couple helps them realize that their home lies in the place of their birth - beneath the free skies in the mountains.
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Wonderful Dust
Title: Wonderful Dust
Released: March 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they meet all sorts of different people who show just the same attitude towards them.
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Massacre at Noon
Title: Massacre at Noon
Character: Kosta
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is conducting a policy of killing 100 hostages for any German soldier killed. The city of Kraljevo is the site of one of those massacres, portrayed in this movie.
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A Naive Person
Title: A Naive Person
Character: Buzga Miročki
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.
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Doctor Mladen
Title: Doctor Mladen
Character: Staniša
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.
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Title: Walter Defends Sarajevo
Character: Zis
Released: June 10, 1974
Type: TV
An extended version of the eponymous feature film.
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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Title: A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Character: Mačak
Released: May 31, 1974
Type: Movie
A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.
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The Bombers
Title: The Bombers
Character: Kovač
Released: July 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Title: The Battle of Sutjeska
Character: Stanojlo
Released: July 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
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Ninth Miracle on the East
Title: Ninth Miracle on the East
Character: Tomislav Brodarac
Released: July 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.
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Walter Defends Sarajevo
Title: Walter Defends Sarajevo
Character: Zis
Released: April 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.
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In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Title: In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
Character: Zilio
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After number of refusals Zilio is desperate, but Nale, a young lover, combines a frontal marriage between the two, convinced they can take advantage of it.
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Title: Where the Wild Boars Go
Character: Crni Rok
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: TV
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.
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Zarki
Title: Zarki
Character: Janoš
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. They bound him in chains and take him from one village to another, torturing him in public so he could tell the names from his movement. Bewildered by his resisting power, the Germans tend to break him down and destroy the pride which is his answer to their torture. Frenzied of powerlessness, they ultimately choose the most horrifying death - they buried him alive in the sand that will cover the last trait of him, but he died victorious: He died for his thing.
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The Cyclists
Title: The Cyclists
Character: Vitomir
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A small town in the first year of the war. A story about young seamstress, a student, a traitor and two Czech artists, their joining the partisans. All of them die and girl stays alone. She's looking for a bicycle bell that is gone...
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I'm Poor But Angry
Title: I'm Poor But Angry
Character: Sava Kekić
Released: February 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A young barber comes to the small village to open a barbershop. He gradually gets to know with the locals and farmers, makes friends with them and even tries to organize the plans, activities and schedules of the village. He also runs a parallel, intimate life with the several village girls. When the locals realize that these plans will not come true, they blame him for the failure.
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X + YY: Formel des Bösen
Title: X + YY: Formel des Bösen
Character: Red Mitchell
Released: January 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Playboy Red Mitchell suffers from chromosome malformation X+YY, a dangerous deformity of the libido. At night, driven by inner turmoil, he roams the streets of the city and murders women. Preferably young, pretty girls who become his victims after he has seen them naked in his imagination with his X-ray vision and then undresses them in real life to kill them. But he soon leaves traces behind, and a cunning detective who suspects his chromosomal drive is on Mitchell's trail...
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The Battle of Neretva
Title: The Battle of Neretva
Character: Novak
Released: October 7, 1969
Type: Movie
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
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Operation Belgrade
Title: Operation Belgrade
Character: Jasa (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: Movie
In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. Germans capture the colonel and begin interrogations, because he knows everything about forecoming Allied summit in Tehran. Group of Yugoslav Partizans is sent to Belgrade in order to rescue the colonel before he starts talking.
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The Naked Man
Title: The Naked Man
Character: Špiro
Released: July 18, 1968
Type: Movie
The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".
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Out of Step
Title: Out of Step
Released: February 13, 1968
Type: Movie
A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is revealed on a television program, and the star of the show is admonished for trying to incite the public against the system. The media, the man and the television manager gather to try to talk out the misunderstandings they all experience with the system of slow-moving social injustices. The message of the film also states that the days of media scrutiny and public-opinion feedback are here to stay.
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Noon
Title: Noon
Character: Ljubiša
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.
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Poor Maria
Title: Poor Maria
Character: Vojislav
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around.
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Boxers Go to Heaven
Title: Boxers Go to Heaven
Character: Reum
Released: July 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol.
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The Morning
Title: The Morning
Character: Mladomir 'Mali'
Released: July 5, 1967
Type: Movie
In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.
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The Demolition Squad
Title: The Demolition Squad
Character: Šarac
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
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The Knife
Title: The Knife
Character: Markov pomoćnik
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A popular singer is found murdered and two police detectives are investigating his past in order to catch the killer.
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The Dream
Title: The Dream
Character: Mali
Released: July 14, 1966
Type: Movie
In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.
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The Climber
Title: The Climber
Character: Ivan Stojanović
Released: July 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A young, ambitious man employs every means necessary in order to climb to the top of the social ladder. But the whirlpool of compromises and corruption eventually threatens to render his life meaningless.
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Eagles Fly Early
Title: Eagles Fly Early
Character: Nikoletina Bursać
Released: April 30, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Title: Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Character: Abdul
Released: November 22, 1965
Type: Movie
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".
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Inspector
Title: Inspector
Character: Borivoje Jovanović
Released: July 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Having used someone else’s I.D. he had found in a barber shop, Boda is mistakenly being proclaimed an inspector. He finds himself in all sorts of adventures, discovers some big machinations in one company and helps in catching the deceiver.
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The Girl
Title: The Girl
Character: Partizan
Released: May 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.
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Mad Summer
Title: Mad Summer
Character: Vice
Released: July 11, 1964
Type: Movie
A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.
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The Descent Upon Drvar
Title: The Descent Upon Drvar
Character: Milan
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are overcome by Partisan resistance.
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Days
Title: Days
Character: Dragan
Released: April 29, 1963
Type: Movie
A married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for a couple of days.
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Kozara
Title: Kozara
Character: Mitar
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
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Superfluous
Title: Superfluous
Character: Mikajlo
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
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A Sand Castle
Title: A Sand Castle
Character: Smoki
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with both but nothing that could make the other jealous. During most of the movie they enjoy minor pleasures. But occasionally when the girl is alone she has attacks of very painful emotions. In the end it turns out that she is a former child-prisoner of a German KZ-lager, who had run away from a mental hospital in bikini and coat. Some of the staff were searching for her. But when she sees them she commits suicide.
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Scaffolding Games
Title: Scaffolding Games
Character: Gvardijan
Released: December 12, 1961
Type: Movie
While trying to remain faithful to his own life philosophy of permanent independence and denial of love, a characteristic so peculiar for his generation, Sasha refuses to admit both to himself and and to the others his love for Bojana. Everything changes when Bojana falls from scaffolding on Sasha's graduation day.
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Title: Evening School
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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.