Accidental Life (Slučajni život) is a 1969 Yugoslav drama film directed by Ante Peterlić, starring Dragutin Klobučar, Ivo Serdar, Ana Karić and Zvonimir Rogoz.

Still, they spend most of their time together, rowing on the Sava river in the morning, collaborating in the office during the day, and going out in the evening looking for female company - all trying desperately to escape from the tedium of everyday life.

Still, he saw Accidental Life as a work that, rather than being a New Wave film per se, projected a New-Wave-like atmosphere by "striving to tell the truth about its times and about my generation by using a more modern way of storytelling".

They are also - as noted by film critic Slaven Zečević - uprooted people with no past, which makes them an oddity in a still traditional society which highly values family background and kinship.

As a fan of Howard Hawks and John Ford, Peterlić preferred the subtle, "invisible" style of directing - using simple, functional shots - over the more extravagant modernist film techniques.

[9] Largely forgotten for decades, Accidental Life has been reevaluated in a much more favorable light in the 1990s, when it began to appear in several critics' all-time top lists of Croatian films.