The Unemployed
A factory worker with twenty years of service. A student with a fresh diploma. Their stories intersect in the quiet desperation of a state employment office. This 1968 documentary observes the human faces behind economic statistics, capturing the suspended animation of lives waiting for purpose. A stark, poetic look at unemployment that feels both of its Yugoslav era and unsettlingly contemporary.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | Nezaposleni ljudi |
| Year | 1968 |
| Country | Yugoslavia |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Želimir Žilnik |
| Runtime | 8 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.4/10 (10 votes) |
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Živojin Pavlović employs the camera as a tool of observation, maintaining a distance that allows the everyday to unfold on its own. His approach avoids dramatization, crafting a feeling of slow, almost physical time spent waiting.
This is for a viewer prepared for a contemplative experience and reflection on the structures shaping ordinary life. It provokes not pity, but an awareness of the repetitive, nearly ritualistic patterns of human existence within a system. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Želimir Žilnik
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For solitary viewing on a grey afternoon when time moves slowly.
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