Slike iz života udarnika (1972)

Directed by

Bahrudin Čengić

Genre

drama film

Country

Yugoslavia

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

14

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A look at the lives of coal miners in early socialist Yugoslavia who were hailed as heroes. The film shows the contrast between their glorified public image and the harsh reality of their daily work.

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What happens

Life of a Shock Force Worker (Serbo-Croatian: Slike iz života udarnika) is a 1972 Yugoslav feature film directed by Bahrudin Bata Čengić and based on a script by Branko Vučićević. It belongs to the Yugoslav Black Wave movement. The film was inspired by the lives of coal miners who, due to their efforts in the first years of socialist Yugoslavia, were glorified and portrayed as national heroes. These workers were known as udarniks (shock force workers). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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