Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestVruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries 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.
Acting
Ljubiša Samardžić's physical comedy as Šurda is genuinely timeless.
Writing
Sharp satire of Yugoslavia's pre-transition labor migration crisis.
Creator
Aleksandar Đorđević
Ljubiša Samardžić
Borivoje Šurdilović 'Šurda'
Miodrag Petrović 'Čkalja'
Blagoje Popović 'Firga'
Borivoje Todorović
Slobodan Bob Mihajlović
Radmila Savićević
Šurdina baba
Vesna Čipčić
Vesna Šurdilović
Živojin 'Žika' Milenković
Sotir Šurdilović 'Soća'
Milivoje 'Mića' Tomić
Bobov šef
Melita Bihali
Sekretarica direktora
Dragomir 'Gidra' Bojanić
Jednoruki Krstivoje
Branislav 'Ciga' Milenković
Navijač sa štapom
Miodrag 'Deba' Popović
Direktor preduzeća 'Crep i cigla'
Milan Puzić
Marko Bošković
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series captured Yugoslavia's Gastarbeiter era—over a million citizens worked abroad, mostly in West Germany, sending remittances home. Šurda's failure to hack it abroad resonated deeply.
The main theme by Zoran Simjanović became a Balkan earworm so infectious that Čkalja reportedly couldn't escape it for decades—fans would hum it at him in public until his death in 2003.
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