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Underground (1995)
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko eventually abandons Blacky, steals his girlfriend, continues to sell illegal arms and drugs when the war is already over.
11 January 1961, Skoplje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
23 December 1918, Hamburg, Germany
11 August 1934, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
16 February 1930, Krusevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia
January 5, 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota, USA
27 September 1930, Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
19 June 1965, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
26 October 1952, Ravno Selo near Vrbas, Serbia, Yugoslavia
13 April 1946, Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia
13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
28 March 1965, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
5 November 1929, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
18 May 1939, Hamburg, Germany
December 19, 1906 in Kamenskoye, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]
24 November 1954, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
December 21, 1918 in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Lower Austria, Austria
28 January 1957, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
15 January 1953, Podujevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia
25 July 1947, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
July 17, 1973 in Belgrade, Serbia
4 April 1941, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
May 30, 1923 in Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbia, Yugoslavia
6 October 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
June 29, 2004
Brilliant, outrageous filmmaking. Underground is touching, hilarious, and new.September 23, 2014
A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole.March 26, 2009
Emir Kusturica's epic black comedy about Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1992 is a three-hour steamroller circus that leaves the viewer dazed and exhausted, but mightily impressed.May 23, 2004
Kusturica creates memorable characters and puts them in increasingly surreal scenarios, but he's awfully long-winded in the storytelling. Trim an hour off this beast and you've got a masterpiece.March 24, 2016
Acknowledged as the Bosnian director Emir Kusturica's masterpiece, Underground is a hallucinogenic comic romp through Yugoslavia's troubled history over 50 years.September 23, 2014
Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.September 23, 2014
A rich, vibrant, visually spectacular survey of the changes the place has gone through during the past 50 years.June 18, 2012
On balance, Kusturica is sturdier on style than substance.January 21, 2004
Whether you'll share the filmmaker's indulgence of his larger-than-life characters is questionable, but the Fellini-esque wedding feast on a floating island makes for a memorable closing sequence.September 23, 2014
Underground is a bizarre, often repellent anti-war parable that takes forever to state the obvious but hits some scattered high notes on the way.April 19, 2004
It's an admirable, interesting wartime satire, but it has a vaguely distasteful feel that makes its 167 minutes a difficult slog.September 23, 2014
Kusturica takes us from wacky farce to harrowing grief to lyrical fantasy to bloody horror. To ignore any side of Underground is to do it injustice.