Bolji život

Bolji život
Members of the Popadić family.
Created by	Mihajlo Vukobratović
Starring	Marko Nikolić Svetlana Bojković Boris Komnenić Lidija Vukićević Dragan Bjelogrlić
Country of origin	SFR Yugoslavia
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	82
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nenad Romano
Running time	40 minutes
Release
Original network	TV Belgrade
Original release	January 6, 1987. – May 5, 1991.

Bolji život (Serbian Cyrillic: Бољи живот, English: A Better Life) is a Yugoslav TV series with mixed elements of soap opera, comedy and drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. Created by the Radiotelevision Belgrade (RTB) it is considered to be the most successful TV show ever produced in Yugoslavia.

Written by Siniša Pavić, most prolific Serbian screenwriter, the series helped jump start cinematic careers for many of its protagonists, most notably Dragan Bjelogrlić who went on to become successful actor, director, and producer.

Bolji život began airing on Radio Television of Belgrade on Saturday, 10 January 1987, opening with the theme song named "Bolji život" ("Ja hoću život") written by Ljubiša Bačić, composed by Voki Kostić and sung by Dado Topić that soon became extremely popular.

Early into its run, the series became a massive hit all over SFR Yugoslavia. The first season's final episode that aired 6 June 1987 featuring a bit of a cliffhanger with Giga leaving the household, brought in huge ratings. A total of 22 episodes were shot and aired in the first season.

The story revolves around the Popadić family and works through their struggles and adaptation to the rapid political and economic changes taking place in the post-Tito SFR Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The family patriarch Dragiša Popadić aka Giga Moravac is an impulsive outburst-prone administrator in his fifties who works as mid-level manager at a state-owned company's legal department. A member of the Communist League (SKJ), he moved to Belgrade from Pomoravlje to study at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law and stayed in the city after graduating and getting married. His cultured and delicate wife Emilija Konstantinović who comes from an affluent family teaches Latin at a high school. They have three grownup children together all of whom still live with their parents.