Vruć vetar

*Vruć vetar*
Vruć vetar
Starring	Ljubiša Samardžić; Bora Todorović; Miodrag Petrović Čkalja; Radmila Savićević; Vesna Čipčić; Žika Milenković
Country of origin	SFR Yugoslavia
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	55 minutes
Original release
Network	TV Belgrade
Release	6 January –; 10 March 1980

Vruć vetar (Serbian Cyrillic: Врућ ветар, English: Hot Wind) is one of the 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 also popular in neighbouring countries (Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as in Czechoslovakia). The main theme (titled "A sad adio", "Now it's time to say goodbye", performed - among others - by Slavko Bešić Čupa and by Dragan Stojnić) became very popular and is enjoying a bit of a cult status.

Plot

The show follows the adventures of Šurda, a man in his mid 30s from Vlasotince 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.

Cast

Ljubiša Samardžić — Borivoje Šurdilović "Šurda"
Bora Todorović — Slobodan Mihajlović "Bob", Šurda's friend and "partner"
Miodrag Petrović Čkalja — Blagoje Popović "Firga", Šurda's uncle
Radmila Savićević — Šurda's Granny
Žika Milenković — Sotir Šurdilović "Soća", Šurda's father
Vesna Čipčić — Vesna Šurdilović, Šurda's wife
Ljubica Ković — Šurda's mother
Dragomir Bojanić Gidra — Krstivoje, Šurda's partner
Čedomir Petrović — Pera

Episode list

Čovek na pogrešnom 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

External links

Vruć vetar at IMDb