Ljubiša Samardžić, nicknamed Smoki, was a Serbian actor and director, best known as Šurda in the Vruć vetar TV series, and Inspector Boško Simić in the comedy crime series Policajac sa Petlovog brda and film of the same name.
Samardžić at the Battle of Neretva premiere in Sarajevo in November 1969.
Samardžić on a 2019 stamp of Serbia
Battle of Neretva is a 1969 Yugoslavian epic partisan film. Written by Stevan Bulajić and Veljko Bulajić, and directed by Veljko Bulajić, it is based on the true events of World War II. The Battle of the Neretva was due to a strategic plan for a combined Axis powers attack in 1943 against the Yugoslav Partisans. The plan was also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive and occurred in the area of the Neretva river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Bridge on the Neretva river, built and twice-destroyed during the shooting of the film.
Sergei Bondarchuk and Orson Welles at the premiere in Sarajevo on 29 November 1969.