Ljubiša Samardžić

Ljubiša Samardžić

Birthday: 1936-11-19

Place of Birth: Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia

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.

Movies

The Battle of Neretva
The Battle of Neretva

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen...

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Boško Buha
Boško Buha

The movie is based on the true story about a group of children, barely teenagers, who joined Yugosla...

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Three Tickets to Hollywood
Three Tickets to Hollywood

The story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote v...

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Kozara
Kozara

In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold ...

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Walter Defends Sarajevo
Walter Defends Sarajevo

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and cha...

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The Tiger
The Tiger

Šorga's, the retired boxing champion nicknamed "Tiger", wife leaves him for a wealthier guy. He meet...

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Black Horses
Black Horses

Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from t...

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Goose Feather
Goose Feather

Goose Feather (Serbian: Jesen Stiže, Dunjo Moja) was Serbia submission to the 77th Academy Awards fo...

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Poltroon
Poltroon

In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO....

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Boxers Go to Heaven
Boxers Go to Heaven

Tragicomic story about a former boxing champion, unbeaten in the ring, but beaten by alcohol....

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It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men
It Isn't Easy to Get Along with Men

A divorcee and her three teenage daughters go on their summer holidays at sea. There they encounter ...

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Superfluous
Superfluous

Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated w...

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Special Education
Special Education

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a pe...

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Scaffolding Games
Scaffolding Games

While trying to remain faithful to his own life philosophy of permanent independence and denial of l...

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The Battle of the Eagles
The Battle of the Eagles

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts....

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The Climber
The Climber

A young, ambitious man employs every means necessary in order to climb to the top of the social ladd...

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Eagles Fly Early
Eagles Fly Early

A group of kids from the Bosnian village often run away from school from the terror of Pepper, a tea...

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The Knife
The Knife

A popular singer is found murdered and two police detectives are investigating his past in order to ...

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My Part-Time Dad
My Part-Time Dad

The new misadventures of single mother Svetlana, her 12 year old son and (still) part-time worker Si...

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Part-Time Work
Part-Time Work

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For t...

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Part-Time Divorce
Part-Time Divorce

While heading to Spain to spend their honeymoon there, Siniša and Svetlana find themselves at Monten...

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Days
Days

A married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her...

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Honeymoon
Honeymoon

The first soft core porn flick made in former Yugoslavia (today Croatia). It was a huge cause celebr...

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The Girl
The Girl

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photograp...

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The Love Life of Budimir Trajković
The Love Life of Budimir Trajković

Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are ev...

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I'm Poor But Angry
I'm Poor But Angry

A young barber comes to the small village to open a barbershop. He gradually gets to know with the l...

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Sugar Water
Sugar Water

Unsatisfied with her looks and lack of sexual experience, a girl nicknamed Tomboy decides to subject...

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A Sand Castle
A Sand Castle

Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under h...

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Visitors from the Galaxy
Visitors from the Galaxy

Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group...

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Watch Your Step
Watch Your Step

Last school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from ...

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Tempting the Devil
Tempting the Devil

Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal...

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The Death of Mr Goluza
The Death of Mr Goluza

Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds...

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Premeditated Murder
Premeditated Murder

Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's w...

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Noon
Noon

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin....

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In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain
In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain

A poor laborer, Zilio, wants to marry Betìa, the daughter of a rich peasant woman. After number of r...

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From Every Man I Loved
From Every Man I Loved

A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose....

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Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel

A journalist investigates the smuggling of gypsy children on the black market and tries to save a yo...

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Volunteers
Volunteers

In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry ...

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The Dream
The Dream

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked b...

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Two Halves of a Heart
Two Halves of a Heart

A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce....

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Yugofilm
Yugofilm

The lives of a Serb family are torn apart by the pressures of the not-too-distant war with the Croat...

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The Policeman from Cock's Hill
The Policeman from Cock's Hill

The adventures of a skillful Belgrade policeman who proves to be equally successful as a caring fath...

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The House by the Railway Tracks
The House by the Railway Tracks

A Serbian family leaves the troubled Kosovo region after Albanians rape the daughter in front of her...

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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja

A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, ho...

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Jaguar Jump
Jaguar Jump

The movie protagonist is an ordinary man from Belgrade. His daughter was stolen by his junkie wife a...

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The Morning
The Morning

In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former par...

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Savamala
Savamala

In Savamala, the most notorious part of Belgrade, lives an eighteen-year-old young man. In this turb...

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Poor Maria
Poor Maria

A sickly village girl wants to marry a house painter, who only prefers to fool around....

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On the Road to Katanga
On the Road to Katanga

Obsessed by the dreams of a comfortable life, son of a coal miner comes back to his native country w...

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The Awkward Age
The Awkward Age

Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his sc...

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Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, t...

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X + YY: Formel des Bösen
X + YY: Formel des Bösen

Playboy Red Mitchell suffers from chromosome malformation X+YY, a dangerous deformity of the libido....

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Broad Are the Leaves
Broad Are the Leaves

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. ...

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Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Don't Come Back by the Same Way

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, suc...

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Some Other Woman
Some Other Woman

The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the docto...

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Zarki
Zarki

In Vojvodina during the war, a partisan commander Zarki fell into the hands of the local Germans. Th...

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A Naive Person
A Naive Person

Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent ...

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Migrations II
Migrations II

Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who s...

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The Bombers
The Bombers

Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war....

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Protest Album
Protest Album

Events surrounding the life of a female pop star in which several men are involved as well. The stor...

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The Train for Kraljevo
The Train for Kraljevo

It is 1941 and the German occupying forces are taking over Yugoslavia, making a train ride to Kralje...

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High Voltage
High Voltage

After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is suppos...

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Mad Summer
Mad Summer

A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys....

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Anticasanova
Anticasanova

Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interru...

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The Naked Man
The Naked Man

The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who wor...

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Extramarital Travels
Extramarital Travels

Tugomir, a student, wants to write a dissertation on Love, but fails to complete it before being obl...

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The Demolition Squad
The Demolition Squad

The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partis...

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The Cyclists
The Cyclists

A small town in the first year of the war. A story about young seamstress, a student, a traitor and ...

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Doctor Mladen
Doctor Mladen

The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly...

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The Descent Upon Drvar
The Descent Upon Drvar

German forces in Yugoslavia set out to destroy the stronghold of Tito with a traitor's help, but are...

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Wheels
Wheels

Nemanja leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a sudden downpou...

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The Battle of Sutjeska
The Battle of Sutjeska

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans ...

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The Hornet
The Hornet

A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkani...

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Foolish Years
Foolish Years

Teenagers Marija and Boba fall in love. When Marija gets pregnant, Boba's friends come up with a pla...

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Massacre at Noon
Massacre at Noon

In Autumn of 1941, the German army, determined to put down a Communist-led uprising in Serbia, is co...

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Operation Belgrade
Operation Belgrade

In Autumn of 1943 American plane carrying Soviet colonel is shot down near Nazi-occupied Belgrade. G...

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Arrive Before Daybreak
Arrive Before Daybreak

The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture...

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Say Why Have You Left Me?
Say Why Have You Left Me?

The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himse...

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Waning Moon
Waning Moon

A story about rich lady who invites a poor fellow to her house with intentions to marry him. He acce...

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The Little One
The Little One

In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from pov...

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Uros the Stupid
Uros the Stupid

The Zivkovic family lives on a hilly village, on cleared part of land. Having many relatives, their ...

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Wonderful Dust
Wonderful Dust

Two partisans in the Yugoslav war of liberation fight their way through the enemy lines, where they ...

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White Grass
White Grass

When Dane returns from the army, Vera awaits him at the station, ready to live together with him. Ye...

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The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic
The Adventures of Borivoje Surdilovic

Fascinated by his friend's success abroad, an out-of-work barber Šurda tries his luck in Germany. In...

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Orchestra of One Youthhood
Orchestra of One Youthhood

True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2....

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Ninth Miracle on the East
Ninth Miracle on the East

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination...

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Aller retour
Aller retour

The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings, persecuti...

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The Timok Rebellion
The Timok Rebellion

In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segmen...

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Inspector
Inspector

Having used someone else’s I.D. he had found in a barber shop, Boda is mistakenly being proclaimed a...

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Long Live Freedom
Long Live Freedom

Old man Repovz recalls experiences of the WWII in an entertaining, comic way rather than tragic. A m...

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Hey Babu Riba
Hey Babu Riba

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beau...

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Out of Step
Out of Step

A disabled man takes on the system when his pension is tied up in a morass of red tape. His story is...

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A Night at My Mother's House
A Night at My Mother's House

A love story of a couple coming from different social backgrounds set in the context of Yugoslavian ...

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Blues for Sara
Blues for Sara

Private detective Emil Marlovsek can boast a wealth of solved cases of run away and lost dogs. He is...

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Pula Confidential
Pula Confidential

A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Ma...

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Yu
Yu

The experiences and adventures of three “thirty-something” buddies who involuntarily find themselves...

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Sevdalinka: The Alchemy of Soul
Sevdalinka: The Alchemy of Soul

Sevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sevdalinka is an integr...

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