Potpisani Explained

Runtime:	45 minutes
Creator:	Marko Kovač
Starring:	Marko Kovač Nikola Dakić Nemanja Predojević Milan Djukić Saša Bajević Dejan Spasojević
Country:	Serbia
Network:	Art TV TV Metropolis
Num Seasons:	2

Potpisani (Serbian Cyrillic: Потписани, English: The Undersigned) is a Serbian alternative TV serial and parody of Otpisani from 2007, 2008 and 2010 by MK Art Studio.^{[1] [2]}

Like in the original TV series Otpisani, the subject of Potpisani is the underground partisan resistance in Belgrade during World War II.^{[3] [4]}

In addition, the targets of this parody are many famous Hollywood movies like Star Wars, The Matrix, Superman III, Home Alone, Charlie Chaplin's and Bruce Lee's films, and also many of famous Serbian movies and TV shows, such as The Marathon Family, Balkan Spy, Nacionalna klasa, Vratice se rode etc.

Podbradak potpisanih (Serbian Cyrillic: Подбрадак потписаних, English: The Double Chin of the Undersigned)^[5] is a sequel of Potpisani which parodies the name ofPovratak otpisanih, the sequel of Otpisani.^{[6] [7]}

List of episodes

• Potpisani (Undersigned)

Episode	Original name	Runtime	First airdate	Network
01. The Phone Exchange	Telefonska centrala	45 min.	January 25, 2009^[8]	Art TV
02. A Password	Šifra	45 min.	February 1, 2009	Art TV
03. The Train	Voz	53 min.	January 3, 2011^[9]	TV Metropolis
04. Paya Shish-kebab	Paja Šiškebab	45 min.	June 1, 2013^[10]	Art TV
05. Mobilization	Mobilizacija	59 min.	October 4, 2014	Art TV
06. The Camp	Logor	42 min.	October 22, 2016	Art TV
07. The Garage, the Revenge and Something Else	Garaža, osveta i još ponešto	75 min.	December 1, 2017	DOB
08. Treger	Treger	57 min.	April 7, 2019^[11] ^[12]	DOB

• Podbradak potpisanih (Chin of Undersigned)

Episode	Original name	Runtime	First airdate	Network
01. Episode 1941.	Epizoda 1941.	20 min.	January 4, 2011	TV Metropolis
02. Episode 1942.	Epizoda 1942.	20 min.	October 27, 2012i^[13] ^[14]	Art TV
03. Episode 1943.	Epizoda 1943.	24 min.	November 3, 2012	Art TV
04. Episode 1944.	Epizoda 1944.	23 min.	November 10, 2012	Art TV
05. Episode 1945.	Epizoda 1945.	26 min.	November 17, 2012	Art TV

Main cast

This is a list of characters who have appeared in the Potpisani film serial.

Character	Films / Episodes								TV series
	The Phone Exchange (2007)	A Password (2008)	The Train (2010)	Paya Shish-kebab (2013)	Mobilization (2014)	The Camp (2016)	The Garage, the Revenge and Something Else (2017)	Treger (2019)	Podbradak potpisanih (2011)
Prele	Marko Kovač								Marko Kovač
Gluhi	Nikola Dakić	Nemanja Predojević	Goran Simić	Nemanja Predojević				Dejan Dimitrijević	Goran Simić
Suri	Dejan Spasojević			Dejan Spasojević			Dejan Spasojević		Bojan Aleksić
Treger	Milan Djukić						Milan Djukić		Milan Djukić
Cane Pedala	Nikola Terić								Nikola Terić
Chedo Chednik	Bude Budisavljević								Bude Budisavljević
Boca		Saša Bajević							Saša Bajević
Brishkula (Briscola)		Ljubomir Štulović			Ljubomir Štulović				Ljubomir Štulović
Zrikavac			Bojan Aleksić				Bojan Aleksić		Bojan Aleksić
Paya Shish-kebab			Saša Bajević						Saša Bajević
Ado Majka (Fuhrer)			Nemanja Predojević		Nemanja Predojević			Dejan Dimitrijević	Nemanja Predojević
Vlada Chechen			Vladeta Aksentijević						Vladeta Aksentijević
Gojko Cinkar			Boško Babović						Boško Babović
Kotangens (Cotangent)				Bojan Aleksić					Bojan Aleksić
Shpira				Dušan Stokić
Shtuca							Nebojša Stepanović
Steva Sajla							Slobodan Andrejevic
Ivana Lola Riba-r									Ana Spasojević

Public screenings, festivals and awards

• After screenings on several TV stations, "Potpisani" had own public cinema life in "Culture house of campus" in Belgrade June 18, 2010 in the „No budget“ festival.^{[10] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}
• August 14, 2011 "Potpisani (episode 1)" won "Woody dwarf" at The First Festival of Independent off-films in Serbian Holywood.^{[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27]}
• April 12, 2012 "Podbradak potpisanih" was shown on the big screen in "Culture house of campus" in Belgrade.^[5]
• July 29, 2012 "Potpisani (episode 3)" won "Woody dwarf" for the Third place at The Second Festival of Independent off-films in Serbian Holywood.^{[28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36]}
• March 16, 2013 "Potpisani (episode 4)" was shown on the big screen in "Dom omladine Beograda"^{[37] [38] [39] [40]}
• August 4, 2013 "Potpisani (episode 4)" was shown on the big screen at The Third Festival of Independent off-films in Serbian Holywood.^{[41] [42] [43] [44]}

External links

• • Trailer of the 3rd episode (YouTube)
• Official website in english
• Official website in serbian

Notes and References

1. News: I . Masnikovic . Prele and Gluhi in Potpisani . Politika. 2009-01-25.
2. News: I . Masnikovic . Otpisani" become "Potpisani . TV Revija. 2009-01-30.
3. News: Potpisani . TV Novosti. 2009-01-25.
4. News: TV Program . TV Novosti. 2009-01-25.
5. News: "Podbradak potpisanih" u DKSG-u. Filmske radosti. 2012-04-12.
6. News: Na TV Metropolis-u . 2011-01-04.
7. News: Podbradak potpisanih. Dom kulture Studentski grad. 2012-04-12. 2012-06-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202230946/http://www.dksg.rs/oneEventDisplay.php?id=660. 2014-02-02. dead.
8. News: Telefonska centrala . TV ALO. 2009-01-25.
9. News: Na TV Metropolis-u . 2011-01-03.
10. News: History . Potpisani website.
11. News: Premijera P8. DOB. 2019.
12. News: Premijera filma P8. FCS. 6 April 2019.
13. News: M . Dedic . Kad Prele i Gluhi zapucaju. TV Novosti. 2012-09-28.
14. News: I . Masnikovic . Sarm koji ne bledi. Politika. 2012-10-20.
15. http://www.seecult.org/kalendar/d/2010-06-18P1D "SEEcult(No budget 2)"
16. News: Вече Потписаних . Politika newspaper. 2010-06-18.
17. News: Архива ДКСГ/Јун 2010. ДКСГ. June 2010. 2011-11-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110831193730/http://www.dksg.rs/arhiva.php. 2011-08-31. dead.
18. News: Culture house of campus. ДКСГ. June 2010. 2011-11-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110824190728/http://pdfcast.org/pdf/1303835935. 2011-08-24. dead.
19. News: Culture house of campus, page 11 . ДКСГ. June 2010.
20. News: Filmorama . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/19lsSpm-Icc . 2021-12-15 . live. Radio Belgrade. 2011-08-16.
21. News: First festival... Film Center of Serbia. 2011-07-25. 2011-11-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20120425150046/http://www.fcs.rs/generic.php?page=vest&id=1097. 2012-04-25. dead.
22. News: Festival is begin ning.. . Глас јавности" newspaper. 2011-08-12.
23. News: Festival is beginning.. . B92 news. 2011-08-12.
24. News: Woody dwarf . 2011-08-15.
25. News: History . Potpisani website. June 2010.
26. News: Potpisani in Holywood . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/QN1V7XtKQS4 . 2021-12-15 . live. YouTube. 2011-08-14.
27. News: Film magic . News online. 2011-08-20.
28. Web site: "FCS" website . 2020-05-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180329184815/http://www.fcs.rs/generic.php?page=vest&id=1405%2F . 2018-03-29 . dead .
29. http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=268&yyyy=2012&mm=07&dd=05&nav_id=623979/ "B92" website
30. http://www.seecult.org/vest/nezavisni-u-srpskom-holivudu/ "SEEcult" website
31. http://www.filmske-radosti.com/novo/Vesti/II-Revija-nezavisnih-filmova-Srbije/ "Filmske-radosti" website
32. http://www.rts.rs/page/magazine/sr/story/411/Film/1146252/Ponovo+radi+%E2%80%9ESrpski+Holivud%E2%80%9C.html/ "RTS" website
33. http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=268&yyyy=2012&mm=07&dd=26&nav_id=629699/ "B92" website
34. http://www.tanjug.rs/novosti/53238/zavrsena-revija-nezavisnih-filmova-na-rudniku.htm "Tanjug" website
35. Web site: "Filmske-radosti" website . 2012-08-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222050302/http://www.filmske-radosti.com/novo/comment/754#comment-754 . 2014-02-22 . dead .
36. https://archive.today/20130222170536/http://superste.net/sr/superste_stav/srpski-holivud-50265.html "Superste" website
37. News: Projekcija filma... . DOB . 2013-03-11.
38. News: Projekcija filma... . SZZ . 2013-03-15 . 2013-03-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033436/http://stazenezele.rs/projekcija-filma-potpisani-4-paja-siskebab/ . 2016-03-04 . dead .
39. News: Projekcija filma... . Filmske_radosti . 2013-03-12.
40. News: Day of 16 Mar 2013. seecult. 2013-03-16.
41. News: 3. review.... FCS. 2013-07-22. 2013-08-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20140203024450/http://www.fcs.rs/generic.php?page=vest&id=1756. 2014-02-03. dead.
42. News: New "mountain" review in "Serbian Holywood". RTS. 2013-07-29.
43. News: The 3rd review.... Filmske radosti. 2013-07-30. 2013-08-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130801232505/http://www.filmske-radosti.com/novo/Vesti/Treca-Revija-nezavisnog-filma-Srbije. 2013-08-01. dead.
44. News: Sky swing in Serbian Holywood. Politika. 2013-08-12.