Cinema
Accidental Life
Slučajni život
Ante Peterlić · 1969
Synopsis
Zagreb. Filip and Stanko, two young employees, share an office in a faceless company and train together at rowing. They lead an ordinary life while trying to find more emotion and pleasure in it. Then an attractive woman enters their lives, and the more reserved and more sensitive of the two falls in love with her, which shakes their friendship.
Context
Released on 22 July 1969, it runs sixty-six minutes according to the catalogues, eighty-one according to other sources. The screenplay is by Petar Krelja, Zoran Tadić and the director, the cinematography by Ivica Rajković, the editing by Katja Majer, the music by Boško Petrović. With Nedjelja by Lordan Zafranović, released the same year, it was the first film of the Filmski autorski studio, an ephemeral independent house that produced some of the most singular Croatian films of the turn of the seventies. Little noticed on release and rarely shown afterwards, it was reassessed decades later.
Who it is for
Barely an hour, in Croatian, easy to follow; a study of atmosphere rather than a plot.
Prizes and reception
The only feature film by its author; poorly received and almost forgotten on its release, it is now counted among the best Croatian films.
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