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Accidental Life (1969)

Accidental Life poster
Original title
Slučajni život
Directed by
Ante Peterlić
Genre
drama film
Country
Yugoslavia
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two alienated white collar workers in a city have their friendship disrupted when a woman enters their lives. The movie is an existential study of ordinary people and their mundane routines.

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What happens

Accidental Life (Slučajni život) is a 1969 Yugoslav drama film directed by Ante Peterlić, starring Dragutin Klobučar, Ivo Serdar, Ana Karić and Zvonimir Rogoz. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers whose friendship gets unsettled by a woman, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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