The Way Steel Was Tempered

The Way Steel Was Tempered Serbian Tako se kalio elik is a 1988 Yugoslav film directed by Serbian director elimir ilnik. It was nominated for a Golden St. George award at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival and has been screened at festivals worldwide such as the Toronto International Film Festival. It was also shown at the Pyongyang Film Festival which frequently showed movies from nonaligned countries.

His wife, Rua, fed up with her husbands constant cheating and dishonesty divorces him and goes back to live with her parents, leaving Leo behind. As she takes her leave, she meets Michel, the head of security at Leos steel mill. Michel is a photographer and an exsoldier. After seeing them together, Leo is faced with emotional turmoil and manages to lose his job after a jealous outburst. In a fit of anger Leo attempts to knock down a monument in the town square, and is sent to prison.Oddly enough, after being sent to prison Leo ends up working back at the steel mill, as the factory and the prison have a deal in using prisoners as general laborers. Foreign business partners arrive and they are very impressed with the historic appearance of the mill and the workers that they decide that the whole place be put under historic preservation. The foreign partners, being passionate collectors of socialist realism take a liking to Leo and take him with them as a perfect specimen. Several years later he returns triumphantly driving a new Cadillac. ........

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