Life of a Shock Force Worker (Serbo-Croatian: Slike iz života udarnika) is a 1972 Yugoslav feature film directed by Bahrudin Bata Čengić and based on a script by Branko Vučićević. It belongs to the Yugoslav Black Wave.The film was inspired by the lives of coal miners who, due to their efforts in the first years of socialist Yugoslavia, were glorified and portrayed as national heroes. These workers were known as udarniks (shock force workers). The protagonist, played by Adem Čejvan, is a miner who, despite his fame, lives a modest and not at all glamorous life.