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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 
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MCT:October 9, 2008
EXCELLENT! I don't like Kusturica very much, but this movie it's very good. And I'm very proud of numerous EXCELLENT actors in this movie and the fact that they are from my country. I strongly recommend this movie.
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MCT:October 9, 2008the great Emir is one of the guys who knows the life well and still enjoying it. accepting cries and laughs together and forcing you to cry and laugh simultaneously while watching his films. sweet surreal dreams coupled with bitter real life, dancing with a tank, swimming in the wells and at last dancing and laughing on a land that is no longer attached to the main land. well, this guy's genius!
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MCT:September 5, 2008
Seen 2 times.
Il était une fois un pays... Et sa capitale était Belgrade, le 6 avril 1941...
Ce pays, c'est la Serbie, c'est l'ex-Yougoslavie. Ce pays, appelez-le comme vous le voudrez. Son nom a très peu d'importance, c'est son passé qui en a. Cette phrase, c'est la phrase d'entrée d'Emir Kusturica dans Underground, c'est la phrase qui précède l'entrée de deux dizaines de musiciens armés de cuivres et de trompettes, dévalant la rue à un rythme effréné, célébrant la révolution sous les liasses d'argent qui tombe du ciel. Cette phrase, c'est le début d'une des plus grandes oeuvres cinématographiques de tous les temps.
Le film est, d'abord et avant tout, divisé en trois parties de durées approximativement égales. Dans la première, La Guerre, on retrouve d'abord et avant tout Blacky, un escroc électricien, Marko, secrétaire du parti communiste de Yougoslavie et Ivan, adolescent et gardien du zoo de Belgrade, accompagné de son meilleur ami, le chimpanzé Soni.
Tout commence alors que le spectateur suit les traces d'Ivan, affairé à nourrir les tigres de son zoo... Et les bombes fusent, et le zoo est détruit, et Belgrade est meurtri. Les animaux s'enfuient, les Nazis bombardent la capitale; Belgrade devient un zoo humain. Marko, profiteur comme il est, convainc donc une vingtaine de personnes de venir se mettre à l'abri dans la cave de son grand-père, un vrai bunker sous terrain. La population se reproduit, un village version miniature prend vie. Ils y fabriquent des armes pour la révolution de la Yougoslavie, tandis que Marko se sacrifie en haut et organise un réel trafic d'armes.
Entre-temps, les Alliés l'emportent sur l'Allemagne, et la 2ème Guerre Mondiale prend fin, comme l'histoire nous l'a appris. Seulement, Marko ne le dira pas à ses amis dans la cave... Et continuera plutôt de les exploiter pendant 20 ans encore, entretenant l'illusion de la terrible guerre qui gronde au-dessus d'eux, utilisant leurs armes pour créer un véritable trafic d'arme qui le fera devenir riche. Ils y resteront enfermés jusqu'en 1992, alors que la Guerre Froide sera à son apogée. Et tous auront à assister à la mort et à la déchéance de leur pays, et personne n'échappera au plongeon du délire, à l'apothéose de la débauche.
Par Underground (1995), Kusturica nous offre un autre épisode de la vie de la Yougoslavie, un chef-d'oeuvre douloureux pour l'âme, usant à merveille de la poésie visuelle, comme il s'en servira d'ailleurs plus tard dans Black cat, white cat (1998) et La vie est un miracle (2004). On songera d'ailleurs à la présence d'une colombe sur un tank de guerre, parfaite illustration de l'oeuvre.
Kusturica allie brillamment réalité et fiction, et c'est là que le débat de la dualité déploie ses ailes et prend son envol. Des montages historiques réels et fictifs s'entrecoupent, ajoutant Marko dans de grands évènements historiques, ajoutent tout d'abord de la crédibilité à l'?uvre. Mais le plus fort est encore à venir, alors que le spectateur se retrouve confronté à une puissante mise en abîme, tandis que Marko devient un leader politique important et qu'un réalisateur veut tourner un film sur son histoire et sur celle de Blacky, ce héros national ''mort'' pour sa patrie il y a 20 ans.
Bien sûr, le film est un ''tantinet'' faussé, puisque le script se base sur le point de vue de l'hypocrite Marko. Un film dans un film. Pastiche du scénario d'Underground ou pastiche de Kusturica lui-même? On assiste également à une autre dualité tandis que la première moitié du film traite de la guerre, mais est incroyablement joyeuse, ponctuée de musique entraînante et de rires éclatants, alors que la deuxième partie, alors que la guerre est terminée, se veut incroyablement dramatique et douloureuse, alors que tous auront à vivre la désillusion de 20 années de mensonges.
Plusieurs thématiques sont constamment exploitées tout au long de la réalisation, mais celles qui retiennent le plus notre attention sont l'utilisation de la musique et l'utilisation du burlesque. La musique est effectivement omniprésente tandis qu'une troupe de musiciens suit nos deux héros principaux tout au long du film, musique qui donne clairement le ton à l'oeuvre. Mais le burlesque - ah! le burlesque - fascine réellement. La guerre y est parfois dédramatisée à un tel point (Marko se masturbant et ne pouvant éjaculer que lorsque Belgrade se fait bombarder) et, au contraire, la paix y est parfois si atrocement décrite (un des derniers plans montre Jésus sur la croix, tête en bas, prouvant que même Dieu a abandonné la Yougoslavie) que Kusturica nous tient suspendu par l'iris pendant presque trois heures, notamment avec des dialogues épicés et réfléchis, et deux acteurs principaux qui sont franchement à couper le souffle.
Et dire qu'il existe une version allongée de plus de cinq heures de ce film...
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MCT:September 2, 2008
I saw this amazing film today and I must admit - I'm so in love with Kusturica's work now! This is by far one of the most beautiful films I have ever laid my eyes on. I laughed so hard watching it, and it also brought me to tears at one point.
The colors are gorgeous and the humour is blacker than black - and thanks to having been taught a few bad words or two in Serbian I picked up a few cursewords the translator had not bothered to include in the Swedish subtitles. This is a perfect picture of how at least I always "believe" the yugoslavs are - a stereotype of course but none the less entertaining.
I love it and I love Kusturica - oh and I almost forgot the passionate and beautiful music by Goran Bregovic - this film is perfect for anyone who wants to enjoy a great evening of yugoslav culture. See it now! -
MCT:August 9, 2008
I don't even remember how many times I've seen this movie; here you get to grow up with such films. It's just some extremely long a bit surreal story about what happened to Yugoslavia and the people (even though you'll eventually realize that it DOES very realistically represent the lives of those people), but after its ending the strong impression it leaves will likely stay with you forever.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
Underground is a fable about a country that no longer exists, it's breakdown, and fragmentation literally illustrated in the films final moments when the characters gathered together on a beach find the ground breaking off like a glacier, and sailing out into the ocean. That's just one the many amazing images thrown into the flamming bonfire of this movie, a bombing where all the animals escape from the zoo, drunken tank rampages/singalongs, etc. At over three hours long, the film tries to pack about as much information and jubuliation as it can, I lost count of how many parties there are. Theres an insistent zeal and vitality in this film that come out in the first frame, where two men drive a wagon drunkenly through town while a full horn band runs behind them playing in perfect time. "Undergound" covers a huge amount of time in a dense allegorical space, but does without succombing to mellacholly or pretension, or getting to tangled in its own details, though with further views, the details are plentiful. This movie made good on it's hype, and managed to really be one of the best films of the 90's, it's massive scale, and manic performances, probably turned away as many as they might have brought in, as might the allegorical nature of the story. Which is a real shame because this is the most entertaining historical movies, I have ever watched, almost each character monologues, sings, dances, performes phsyical comedy, and all without feeling staged or forced, or rather feeling appropriately staged, the right style at the right moment. It's a long, long, sit, but it's well worth the time, a fun, funny, lyrical, surreal, and boisterous epic of a country existing in the minds of it's people, it's passions and virtues as well as it's trappings.
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MCT:January 13, 2008
I'm in agreement with the great Kathleen C. Fennessy when I say that Underground isn't for the faint of heart. Its loud, its long and its sad. I might also add that it will wear on you and leave you feeling tired and depleted. Its an exercise for the mind and a test of your metal. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to go take a nap afterwards.
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MCT:December 12, 2007
la quiero la quiero la quiero
Otra forma de jugar con la esperanza de las personas, la mentira que más me hizo esperar, que pasara cuando la verdad salga a la luz? ¿cuántoas años más? ahhh el final el final -
MCT:October 18, 2007Gambaran nagara Serbia yang dibentuk dari karekter-karekter yang menghidupkan cerita ni.
dari zaman perang sampai zaman komunis.
sebuah karya surrealism yang aneh . Tapi penuh kesenian. -
MCT:August 2, 2007
Imperdível! De uma poesia incomparável. Uma das obras mais lindas que o cinema já produziu. Kusturica chega a perfeição suprema com este filme. Se existissem mais estrelinhas para classificar um filme, com certeza Undeground mereceria no mínimo mais umas cinco.
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MCT:July 16, 2007
This one is wonderfull. emir costarica have done a real masterpeace.scoffs and comedies are remarkable in it. turning the togh cicumstances of war into a smooth and comic atmosphier, efficiently.
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MCT:July 14, 2007
One of the most beautiful and unexpected ending that I remember. The movie could get a bit slow in the middle, and that's the only reason why I don't give it 5 stars. Everything else is great. I've loved every Kusturica film I've seen. I think He's a marvellous director. And this movie is no exception. Great story, excellently told.
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MCT:July 12, 2007
kojai ferantzzz,entekhabe doroste sambolha,ye filme shad va tamiz az har nazar va baiangre tamame ehsasate ensani,eshgh,nefrat,dosti,doshmani,tahood,khianat va... lezate bi hasri bordam az didanesh.
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MCT:July 10, 2007
En esta pelicula Emir Kusturica nos muestra por que es considerado uno de los mas grandes directores actuales y por que su cine tiene un toque sumamente especial y un parecido muy agradable al cine de Fellini... una manera comica, original y simbolica de ver lo que paso Yugoslavia desde la segunda guerra mundial hasta su desaparicion.
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MCT:June 30, 2007
Meraviglia grottesca: splende per la trama, per i personaggi, per i dialoghi e sopratutto per la musica di Bregovic.
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MCT:June 19, 2007
"One of the Great Films of The Decade!!" my friend always talked to me about Emir Kustorica.. Now i know, He's a Movie Genius!! This is my first film of Kusturica.. It kills me for christsake!! I've never expected i'll find a masterpiece like this.. "Original, Clever, Beautiful, Crazy, Wonderful and Sharp like a knife!!" All the charactor were so deep, fuckin' charming and lord knows they're really beloved.. I fell in love with it since the first 15 minutes of the movie!!
From the opening to the end.. is full of intelligent scenes.. all the scenes were so interestin' and charming.. with mad & charming charactors and situation. This is one of the movies i dream to make.. if i were a film director!! I thought of Guiseppe Tornatore while i watched it.. by Let us go deep in life of a social.. Moral and norms of Them.. How they live their life.. It's perfectly charming!!
Epic!! Morality flys high!! Hospitality rides in the air!! Beautiful.. Beautiful.. I cried.. The charactors like Blacky, Marko, Natalia, Jovan.. and many many even Sony(A monkey) will be in my heart forever.. This could be one of the most charming movie with most Charming charactors in the world!!
The Story is perfect, clever and sharp.. filled with madness and insanity!! One of the best war satire films. The Black comedy of the century.. Classic like "Dr. Strangelove.." Kusturica is a god of film makers.. I'll continue with "Life is a Miracle" very very soon!! Love your work, Emir!!
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MCT:June 6, 2007
Blaky es un hombre casado, pero tiene un romance con Natalija, una actriz frívola, egoísta y casquivana. Su amigo Marko, que también está enamorado de Natalija, aprovecha la guerra para mantener a Blaky, entre otros muchos, escondido en un sótano haciéndole creer que la guerra continúa. Al mismo tiempo, con el fin de enriquecerse, Marko crea en el sótano una fábrica de armas con las que trafica. Esta farsa se mantiene durante veinte años hasta que, accidentalmente, el techo del sótano es destruido y Blaky sale al exterior para encontrarse con la guerra de los Balcanes. Marko y Natalija dinamitan el sótano y siguen dedicándose al tráfico de armas mientras Blaky se convierte en el jefe de una guerrilla.
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MCT:March 13, 2007
Great movie, makes you understand a little bit all the chaos around the Balkans expecally ex Jugoslavia...
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MCT: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.
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MCT:December 11, 2006
A piece of art. A movie about betrayal, forgiveness, and humanism lost in the middle of the serbs and croatia war.
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MCT:December 10, 2006Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...
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MCT:October 26, 2006I have heard that this movie inspired Kaizers Orchestra, the greatest band ever. I need...to see. Even though Black Cat/White Cat SUCKED.
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