Vruć vetar
Encyclopedia
Vruć vetar is one most popular Yugoslav TV series that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show (Avanture Borivoja Šurdilovića (Serbian Cyrillic: Авантуре Боривоја Шурдиловића, English: The Adventures of Borivoje Šurdilović)) were popular in neighboring countries (Hungary
, Romania
and Bulgaria
)-also very popular in Czechoslovakia.
who comes to Belgrade
to work and get rich. In Belgrade he lives in a small house with his granny and uncle Firga, a retired mason. Šurda buys a local barbershop, but this job doesn't suit him, so Šurda sells the barbershop and buys a car to become a taxi driver. He is not successful in this job either, so Šurda, after listening to Bob's story about better life abroad, decides to become gastarbeiter
, a guest worker in Germany.
But none of the jobs he finds are right for him, so he is forced to return to Yugoslavia. Here, he meets Vesna, an attractive stewardess, and the couple eventually get married. Firga succeeds in employing Šurda in his former construction firm. There, Šurda, with a little cheating, wins a flat that the company gives for its own workers, but after some internal problems within the company, Šurda is forced to fight for the flat. Eventually, Firga is awarded a new flat, so the whole family settle to a new home and they find that their new flat is occupied by Pera, a homeless chemist.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
)-also very popular in Czechoslovakia.
Plot
The show follows the adventures of Šurda, a man in his mid 30s from VlasotinceVlasotince
Vlasotince is town and municipality in south-east Serbia. The municipality has 29,669 inhabitants, while the town itself has a population of 15,830 .-History:...
who comes to Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
to work and get rich. In Belgrade he lives in a small house with his granny and uncle Firga, a retired mason. Šurda buys a local barbershop, but this job doesn't suit him, so Šurda sells the barbershop and buys a car to become a taxi driver. He is not successful in this job either, so Šurda, after listening to Bob's story about better life abroad, decides to become gastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter
Gastarbeiter is German for "guest worker." It refers to migrant workers who had moved to West Germany mainly in the 1960s and 70s, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker programme...
, a guest worker in Germany.
But none of the jobs he finds are right for him, so he is forced to return to Yugoslavia. Here, he meets Vesna, an attractive stewardess, and the couple eventually get married. Firga succeeds in employing Šurda in his former construction firm. There, Šurda, with a little cheating, wins a flat that the company gives for its own workers, but after some internal problems within the company, Šurda is forced to fight for the flat. Eventually, Firga is awarded a new flat, so the whole family settle to a new home and they find that their new flat is occupied by Pera, a homeless chemist.
Cast
- Ljubiša SamardžićLjubiša SamardžicLjubiša Samardžić is a Serbian actor and director, who is best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series.- Early life :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. Samardžić was educated at the...
— Borivoje Šurdilović "Šurda" - Bora TodorovićBora TodorovicBorivoje "Bora" Todorović is a Serbian actor...
— Slobodan Mihajlović "Bob", Šurda's friend and "partner" - Miodrag Petrović ČkaljaMiodrag Petrovic CkaljaMiodrag Petrović was a Serbian actor who was one the most popular comedians of former Yugoslavia....
— Blagoje Popović "Firga", Šurda's uncle - Radmila Savićević — Šurda's Granny
- Žika Milenković — Sotir Šurdilović "Soća", Šurda's father
- Vesna Ćipčić — Vesna Šurdilović, Šurda's wife
- Ljubica Ković — Šurda's mother
- Dragomir Bojanić GidraDragomir Bojanic GidraDragomir Bojanić, best known by his nickname Gidra was a famous Serbian actor....
— Krstivoje, Šurda's partner - Čedomir Petrović — Pera
Episode list
- Čovek na pogresnom mestu (A Man in the Wrong Place) — 6 January 1980
- Taksista (A Taxidriver) — 13 January 1980
- Gastarbajter (Gastarbeiter) — 20 January 1980
- Kobni susret (The Fatal Encounter) — 27 January 1980
- Bračni vir (Marriage Whirl) — 3 February 1980
- Stan (Flat) — 10 February 1980
- Na barikadama (On Barricades) — 17 February 1980
- Pronalazak (The Invention) — 24 February 1980
- Brodolom (Shipwreck) — 3 March 1980
- Šampion (The Champion) — 10 March 1980