Underplayed Gems

The Tough Ones (1968)

The Tough Ones poster
Original title
Делије
Directed by
Mića Popović
Genre
drama film
Country
Yugoslavia
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Yugoslav film follows a group of young people in the early years of communist Yugoslavia. They struggle with poverty and disillusionment, leading them into crime and conflict with the authorities.

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What happens

The Tough Ones (Serbo-Croatian: Delije, Serbian Cyrillic: Делије) is a 1968 Yugoslav feature film directed by Mića Popović. It belongs to the Yugoslav Black Wave movement, partly because of the modernist style (where black and white is mixed with color photography), but also because of the content that showed the dark side of communist Yugoslavia in its initial years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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