Slike iz života udarnika (Life of a shock force worker)

The film was inspired by the lives of coal miners who, due to their efforts in the first post-war years of socialist Yugoslavia, were glorified as shock workers and considered national heroes. The main character is a coal miner who, despite being glorified for his hardworking achievements and considered an exemplary socialist worker, lives a life that is anything but glitz and glamour.

Slike iz života udarnika was made based on a feeling, my feeling, the feeling of a man from Bosnia who saw the Stakhanovite tribe as the most moral form of acknowledging the working class, all that communism and a socialist society meant at the time. The workers withdrew into anonymity and so, while working on the documentary, I realized and discovered that the famous Stakhanovites, who had represented the flower of the labour movement across Yugoslavia, such as Sirotanović, Babajić, Kojić, Timotijević and Petek from Slovenia, were quite anonymous and had disappeared. I went in search of them. Where had they disappeared to? I found them. Alija Sirotanović was in his village, far from Breza, entirely forgotten and I must say unhappy.
Bata Čengić, TV programme Povečava, RTV Slovenia, 28 March 1996, created by Majda Širca

PRODUCTION 1: Ženja Leiler Kos – Slovenska kinoteka
Miklošičeva 28
1000 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel. +386 4342500
Mob. +386 41781867
zenja.leiler@kinoteka.si
http://www.kinoteka.si
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PRODUCTION 2: Ines Tanović - Filmski centar Sarajevo
Fadila Jahića Španca, 1
71000 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel. +387 33873027
Mob. +387 61144725
direktor@fcs.ba
http://www.fcs.ba

PRODUCTION 3: Dinko Čutura - Hrvatski državni arhiv - Hrvatska kinoteka
Maruličev trg, 21
10000 – Zagreb, Croatia
Tel. +385 16060533
Mob. +385 98458293
kinoteka@arhiv.hr
http://www.arhiv.hr

PRODUCTION 4: Michael Loebenstein - Österreichisches Filmmuseum
Augustinerstrasse, 1
1010 – Wien, Austria
Tel. +43 15337054
office@fimlmuseum.at
http://www.filmmuseum.at/

RESTORATION CURATED BY: Ženja Leiler Kos, Ines Tanović, dr.sc Dinko Čutura, Michael Loebenstein, Paulina Reizi - Slovenska kinoteka, Filmski centar Sarajevo, Hrvatski državni arhiv - Hrvatska kinoteka, Österreichisches Filmmuseum with the support of EU Creative Europe MEDIA programme, ACE – Association des Cinematheques Europeenes, Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije
Miklošičeva, 28
1000 – Ljubliana, Slovenia
Tel. +386 14342500
Mob. +386 4781867
zenja.leiler@kinoteka.si
http://www.kinoteka.si

LABORATORY: Studio Film Sarajevo

WORLD SALES: Tanović Ines - Filmski centar Sarajevo
Fadila Jahića Španca, 1
71000 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tel. +387 33873027
Mob. +387 61144725
direktor@fcs.ba
http://www.fcs.ba

PRESS OFFICE: Kristina Ravnikar – Slovenska Kinoteka
Miklošičeva, 28
1000 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel. +386 4342500
Mob. +386 41464880
kristina.ravnikar@kinoteka.si