The Foolish Years (Serbian: Lude godine / Луде године) is a Yugoslav film series spawned from the 1977 movie of the same name.
Centered around a teenage couple, Boba (Vladimir Petrović) and Marija (Rialda Kadrić), one of the film's goals was addressing societal issues such as unprotected sex and teen pregnancy.
[2] This would later be exploited in nine subsequent sequels as each one revolved around the pair of in-laws—unrefined, working class Žika and strait-laced intellectual Milan—rather than the young couple.
Most disliked it for what they saw to be poor directorial choices and crude folksy humour loaded with rural and urban stereotypes that are displayed through the characters of Žika and Milan, respectively.
Despite its low-brow reputation, the series proved to be a valuable training ground and career springboard for many acting talents and future stars of Yugoslav/Serb cinema like Sonja Savić, Zoran Cvijanović, Nikola Kojo, Gala Videnović, Branko Đurić and others.