Vruć vetar
television series
Vruć vetar (Serbian Cyrillic: Врућ ветар, lit. 'Hot Wind') is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV series that aired in 1980. The series and the film, which was cut from scenes of the show, Avanture Borivoja Šurdilovića (Serbian Cyrillic: Авантуре Боривоја Шурдиловића, lit. '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", performed by Slavko Bešić Čupa Dragan Stojnić and others, 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-thirties from Vlasotince who comes to Belgrade to work and get rich. In Belgrade, he lives in a small house with his grandmother and Uncle Firga, a retired mason. Šurda buys a local barbershop. However, the job does not suit him abd so Šurda sells the barbershop and buys a car to become a taxi driver. He is not successful in this job either abd so Šurda, after listening to Bob's story about better life abroad, decides to become gastarbeiter, a guest worker in Germany.
However, none of the jobs that he finds is right for him and so he is forced to return to Yugoslavia. There, he meets Vesna, an attractive stewardess, and the couple eventually get married.
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