| In the Jaws of Life | |
| Director: | Rajko Grlić |
| Starring: | |
| Music: | Brane Živković |
| Cinematography: | Tomislav Pinter |
| Editing: | Živka Toplak |
| Runtime: | 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.
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]