The Wounds

The Wounds
Directed by	Srđan Dragojević
Produced by	Dragan Bjelogrlić Milko Josifov Igor Živković
Written by	Srđan Dragojević
Starring	Dušan Pekić Milan Marić Dragan Bjelogrlić Branka Katić Vesna Trivalić
Music by	Aleksandar Habić
Cinematography	Dušan Joksimović
Edited by	Petar Marković
Production company	RTS Cobra Films
Release date	15 May 1998 (FR Yugoslavia)
Running time	103 min.
Country	FR Yugoslavia
Language	Serbian
Budget	$800,000

The Wounds (Serbian: Ране, Rane) is a 1998 Serbian drama film written and directed by Srđan Dragojević.

It depicts the violent lives of two boys in Belgrade as they aspire to make names for themselves in the city's underworld. The story takes place throughout the 1990s, against the backdrop of Yugoslav Wars and growing ethnic hatred.

The film won a Bronze Horse at the and a FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, "For its powerful, dramatic depiction of the brutal reality and complexity of life in the Balkans today."

Rane's opening sequence announces it as being "dedicated to the generations born after Tito". The film follows the fate of two boys, Pinki and Švaba, growing up in Novi Beograd during the Yugoslav Wars period (1991–96).

Pinki was born on 4 May 1980, the day Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito died, and was given his unusual name by his father Stojan Mučibabić, an idealistic, impulsive, and patriotic officer of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) who is deeply devoted to communist ideals and Marshal Tito. Father's first choice for his firstborn's name was actually Tito, but the officials at the municipal office thought it provocative and inappropriate in the time of grieving so he eventually settled on Pinki after local communist Partisan fighter. Meanwhile, Pinki's best friend Švaba is raised and cared for only by his grandmother, a Croatian Serb who fled to Serbia during World War II after persecution from the Croatian fascist movement Ustaše.