Accidental Life
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| Slučajni život | |
| Directed by | Ante Peterlić |
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Petar Krelja Zoran Tadić Ante Peterlić |
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Dragutin Klobučar Ivo Serdar Ana Karić Zvonimir Rogoz Helena Buljan Stjepan Bahert Fabijan Šovagović Dragan Milivojević Martin Sagner Branko Špoljar |
| Music by | Boško Petrović |
| Cinematography | Ivica Rajković |
| Edited by | Katja Majer |
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66 minutes (81 minutes, according to some sources) |
| Country | Yugoslavia |
| Language | Croatian |
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, 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.
Filip (Dragutin Klobučar) and Stanko (Ivo Serdar) are two young clerks who share an office in a nondescript company. The two are also amateur rowers who train together. Their personalities are quite different: while Filip is fastidious, serious in relationships with women, and somewhat introverted and sensitive, Stanko is a womanizer and prone to shirking his duties at work. Still, they spend most of their time together, rowing on the Sava river in the morning, collaborating in the office during the day, and going out in the evening looking for female company - all trying desperately to escape from the tedium of everyday life. They see their senior colleague Jurak (Zvonimir Rogoz) as a dinosaur, dreading the possibility of becoming like him as they grow older.
Filip falls in love with an attractive female coworker and, as the events gradually unfold, differences in character between the two men create a simmering conflict...
By the time Ante Peterlić set out to direct Accidental Life, his debut feature film, he was already well known as a prominent young film critic, and a professor of film theory at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In the 1960s he directed his first short TV drama, and was active as an assistant director in several feature films and documentaries, working also as a script doctor.
The role of Stanko was initially intended for Zvonimir Črnko, but he was busy shooting a TV series, so Peterlić opted for Dragutin Klobučar. However, he felt that Klobučar was better suited for the character of Filip, the more introverted protagonist, so Stanko's role ultimately went to Ivo Serdar.
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