Accidental Life / Sluèajni život
Yugoslavia, 66' , 1969

Directed by: Ante Peterliæ
Script: Ante Peterliæ, Petar Krelja, Zoran Tadiæ
Producer: -
Production company: FAS filmski autorski studio
Cinematography: Ivica Rajkoviæ
Editing: Katja Majer
Music: Boško Petroviæ
Cast: Ana Kariæ, Branko Špoljar, Dragan Milivojeviæ, Dragutin Klobuèar, Fabijan Šovagoviæ

Format: -
Running time: 66'

Synopsis
The plot of Peterliæ’s Accidental Life depicts the tiresome daily routine of two young men who ended up earning their living as clerks. The two – Filip who is a shy person and his feisty friend Stanko, get brief moments of pleasure and fun while rowing on Sava river after work. Then, as this tiny male union immerged in its daily routine gets disturbed by a female office colleague, the most common dramatic formula of Croatian films of the 80-s is put to use – the one about life repeating itself and destroying the hero’s attempt to step out of the circle. Film reviewers of the renowned Paris magazine 'Cahirers du cinema' repeatedly recommended Peterliæ’s film to their readers.

Directors Biography
Ante Peterliæ, film theoretician and director, was born in KaÅ¡tel Novi in 1936. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He had his first texts about film published in 1957, and since 1959 worked as assistant director with M. Relja and K. Papiæ. From 1961 to 1963 he worked as screenwriter for ‘Zora – film’ production company. Since 1966, Peterliæ has been teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Faculty of Philosophy. He defended his doctoral thesis entitled Concept and Structure of Time in Films in 1974. In 1977 his major work, ‘Film Theory Basics’, was published and several reprints followed the first edition. He also wrote ‘Essays on 9 Authors’ (1984), ‘Studies of 9 films’ (2002) and ‘Déjà vu’ (2005) and earned a film expert status. In the second half of the eighties he began and finished work on Film Encyclopedia in two volumes (one out of six existing in the world). In 1966 he directed his TV play ‘Intimacy’ (Intima) and in 1969 his single feature film ‘Accidental Life’ (‘Sluèajni život’). Ante Peterliæ died in Zagreb in 2007.

Location and screening schedule: &TD Cinema, Monday, October 22nd at 21.00