| Director: | Želimir Žilnik |
| Cinematography: | Petar Latinović |
| Editing: | Milica Poličević |
| Music: | Dušan Ninkov |
| Studio: | Neoplanta Film |
| Runtime: | 10 minutes |
| Country: | Yugoslavia |
| Language: | Serbo-Croatian |
The Unemployed is a 1968 Yugoslav short documentary film directed by Želimir Žilnik.[1] The film focuses on the issue of unemployment in socialist Yugoslavia.[2] It belongs to the Yugoslav Black Wave.[3] [4]
The film deals with the social position and issues faced by the unemployed populace in Yugoslavia. It shows the life of several unemployed men temporarily living in a collective accommodation provided by the employment office. The director interviews them on the street and inside their accommodation; they discuss societal inequality, the red bourgeoisie, differences in salaries and the housing situation among the homeless. The short ends with an unemployed man hitting himself in the head with a stone while another recites Aleksa Šantić's poem Stay here (Ostajte ovdje).