The Wounds

Rane (The Wounds, 1998) — watch this Serbian crime drama online on iFILM. Director Srđan Dragojević traces two friends from a Belgrade working-class block through six years of civil war, hyperinflation and criminal shortcuts.

Pinki and Švabe want the usual things: money, respect, girls. What they get is a country where the rule of law has collapsed and the only ladder up runs through organized crime. From 1991 to 1997 they climb it — one body at a time.

Dragojević strips the gangster genre bare. No sharp suits or witty heists, just the grinding erosion of a society at war with itself. Dragan Bjelogrlić, Dušan Pekić and Milan Marić carry every scene without a false note. Watch The Wounds online on iFILM.