Overview
In a city on the brink of chaos, two friends navigate the treacherous world of crime and survival.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- sardonic
- nihilistic
- frantic
- serious film night
- balkan cinema exploration
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film's forceful visual style, sardonic narration, and disturbing fusion of horror and pity while finding its pacing erratic and its martyrdom imagery heavy-handed.
What sets it apart
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Pinki provides sardonic voice-over narration while reflecting on a life in which hope appears unavailable.
The film employs raucous, stinging satire to portray post-Tito society and a new generation of thugs.
Pinki and Švaba transform themselves into gangster legends while growing up in a decaying Belgrade society.
The protagonists are explicitly framed as post-Tito youths whose violence reflects a broader Balkan social collapse.
Films like The Wounds, and why
Goodfellas
violent gangster rise, sardonic narration, and morally corrosive coming-of-age energy
Dead Presidents
lost youth, nihilistic social environment, and shocking crime-driven adolescence
Underground
darkly comic Balkan social collapse and raucous political satire
Trainspotting
youthful criminality, propulsive style, and bleakly ironic voice-over
Movie Details
- Director
- Srđan Dragojević
- Release Date
- 1998-05-27
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 (66)
Cast
- Dragan Bjelogrlić
- Dušan Pekić
- Milan Marić
- Branka Katić
- Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović
- Vesna Trivalić
- Andreja Jovanović
- Nikola Kojo
- Gorica Popović
- Zorka Manojlović
Common questions
- What is The Wounds about?
- Two Belgrade teenagers chase gangster fame through a violent, nihilistic society that offers them no meaningful future.
- What is The Wounds like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Wounds as breakneck, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Wounds violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Wounds as graphic.
- What did critics think of The Wounds?
- Critics broadly praised the film's forceful visual style, sardonic narration, and disturbing fusion of horror and pity while finding its pacing erratic and its martyrdom imagery heavy-handed.
- Which films are like The Wounds?
- Films with a similar feel include Goodfellas, Dead Presidents, Underground, and Trainspotting.
- How long is The Wounds?
- The Wounds runs 103 minutes.
