A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ljubisa Samardzic
Smoki Samardi
Љубиша Самарџић
Любиша Самарджич
柳比沙·萨马尔季奇
Birthplace:
Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
Born:
November 19, 1936
Died:
September 8, 2017
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.
Director:
2000 Sky Hook
2001 Natasha
2003 Bare Ground
2004 Goose Feather
2007 Black Horses
2008 Waning Moon
2011 The Scent of Rain in the Balkans
Producer:
1991 A Night at My Mother's House
2000 Sky Hook
2001 Natasha
2003 Bare Ground
2004 Goose Feather
2007 Black Horses
2008 Waning Moon
2011 The Scent of Rain in the Balkans
Creator:
2007 Goose Feather
Director:
2007 Goose Feather
2010 Scent of Rain in the Balkans
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
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