Underground

Name: Underground
Genre: War, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1995
Duration: 167 min
Cast: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Joković, Slavko Stimac, Ernst Stötzner

Emir Kusturica19952h 47mWar, Comedy, Drama

Why we chose it

A brass band tears through Belgrade and won’t stop until it drops, as Emir Kusturica, in the film that won him his second Palme d’Or, plays fifty years of Yugoslavia as one long, very drunken wedding. Only after a while do you see the darkness closing in, and it’s just as loud and chaotic.

Synopsis

On 6 April 1941 German bombs rain down on Belgrade, and Marko and Blacky join the communist resistance. Marko turns his grandfather’s cellar into an arms store, and before long he’s hiding people down there too. Blacky’s wife dies underground giving birth to his son. Marko stays upstairs, and keeps telling everyone in the cellar that the war is still going on.

Information

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Cast
Production year: 1995
Decade: 1990s
Duration: 2h 47m
Genre: War Comedy Drama
Festivals & Awards
Language: Serbian, German, French, English, Russian
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary
Subtitles: Polish
Age rating: 16+