In the Jaws of Life

In the Jaws of Life
In the Jaws of Life
	Cover of the Facets Video VHS release
Directed by	Rajko Grlić
Written by	Rajko Grlić; Dubravka Ugrešić
Starring	Gorica Popović; ; Bogdan Diklić; Miodrag Krivokapić; Mira Furlan; Semka Sokolović-Bertok; Miki Manojlović; Bata Živojinović; Rade Šerbedžija;
Cinematography	Tomislav Pinter
Edited by	Živka Toplak
Music by
Release date	4 April 1984
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Yugoslavia
Language	Serbo-Croatian

In the Jaws of Life (Croatian: U raljama života) is a 1984 Yugoslav film directed by Rajko Grlić. It is based on a novel by Dubravka Ugrešić.^[1]

The film was released on VHS in the United States by Facets Video in November 1998.

Plot[]

Dunja (Gorica Popović), a television director is editing a TV series about Štefica Cvek (Vitomira Lončar), an introverted and unassuming office worker who lives in a world of romance novels and women's magazines, seeking out for a real man. Dunja's relationship with Sale (Miodrag Krivokapić), a literary critic and party ideologue, is facing a crisis, so she finds herself in a situation similar to that of her on-screen protagonist...^[2]

References[]

^ "Štefica Cvek premijerno na kazališnim daskama". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 3 April 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
^ In the Jaws of Life at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)

External links[]

In the Jaws of Life at IMDb

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[1] "Štefica Cvek premijerno na kazališnim daskama". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 3 April 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

[2] In the Jaws of Life at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)

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v t Films directed by Rajko Grlić
Whichever Way the Ball Bounces (1974) Bravo Maestro (1978) You Love Only Once (1981) In the Jaws of Life (1984) Three for Happiness (1985) That Summer of White Roses (1989) Charuga (1991) Josephine* (2001) The Border Post (2006) Just Between Us (2010) The Constitution (2016)
^* Never released to theatres.