Ljubiša Samardžić

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Nov 19, 1936 (88 years old)
Death date
Sep 08, 2017

Ljubiša Samardžić

Known For

Goose Feather
TV Show 2007

Goose Feather

TV series which serves as an extended version of the eponymous feature film.

Visa for the Future
0h 35m
TV Show 2002

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.

Policajac sa Petlovog brda
TV Show 1994

Policajac sa Petlovog brda

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

The Awkward Age
1h 37m
Movie 1994

The Awkward Age

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.

Say Why Have You Left Me?
1h 30m
Movie 1993

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 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...

The Policeman from Cock's Hill
1h 31m
Movie 1992

The Policeman from Cock's Hill

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

The Little One
1h 32m
Movie 1991

The Little One

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.

A Night at My Mother's House
1h 36m
Movie 1991

A Night at My Mother's House

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.

Migrations II
2h 15m
Movie 1989

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.

Poltroon
1h 41m
Movie 1989

Poltroon

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

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.

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