Underground (1995)

Bora Todorovic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Ernst Stotzner

The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets ...( read more  read more... )to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become suspicious, and break out of their underground "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the guy was right: the war is still going on.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 49 min.

Directed by: Emir Kusturica

Released: June 20, 1995

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DVD Released: December 23, 2003

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  • January 25, 2009
    Totally surreal tale of two brothers' resistance against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. They form an underground society to help the communist effort by producing weapons. This is an epic film that covers 50 years in three hours as the crazy Serbs continue their fight again... ...( read more )
  • March 23, 2008
    *On my "best of the 1990s" list.
  • November 24, 2006
    Black comedy from Serbia
  • February 22, 2007
    A materpiece for true lovers of cinema. Set pieces, characters & scenarios reminded me of a Jeunet film. The synopsis in here pretty much sums it up.
  • July 2, 2009
    I grew up on movies like that. This one is classic black humor drama movie. Behind the comedy is hidden the pain of whole generations, which have suffered WWII, The Cold War, the war in Yugoslavia, the communism, the fall. It show us reality and Serbian crazy way to deal with it.... ...( read more )

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