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In an allegorical manner “Early Works” recounts a story of young people who took part in student demonstrations in June 1968 in Belgrade. Three young men and a girl, Yugoslava, defy the petit-bourgeois routine of everyday life. Wishing to “change the world”, inspired by the writings of young Karl Marx, they go to the country and to factories to “wake up people’s consciousness”, to encourage them in their fight for emancipation and life worth living. Being in the field they face primitivism and squalor, but they show their own limits, weaknesses, incapacity and jealousy.

Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1969 Berlin International Film Festival.