Underground (1995)
The life of two close friends Marco and Blucky, work as black marketers, who during the second world War manufacturing and sell weapons for the resistance against the Communist Party, has been changed completely, when Marko has betrayed Blucky and stole his girlfriend and his money, the thing that makes Blucky's will of revenge.
5 November 1929, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
20 September 1969, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
18 May 1939, Hamburg, Germany
2 September 1947, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
January 26, 1918 in Scornicesti, Olt, Romania
11 December 1962, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
1 January 1972, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
16 February 1930, Krusevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia
May 30, 1923 in Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbia, Yugoslavia
25 August 1946, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
24 November 1954, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
6 October 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
January 5, 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota, USA
15 October 1960, Konjsko Brdo near Perusic, Croatia, Yugoslavia
15 January 1953, Podujevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia
28 January 1957, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
1952, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
May 25, 1892 in Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]
4 April 1941, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
26 October 1952, Ravno Selo near Vrbas, Serbia, Yugoslavia
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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.
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.
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.
June 18, 2012
On balance, Kusturica is sturdier on style than substance.
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.
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
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.
September 23, 2014
A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole.
June 29, 2004
Brilliant, outrageous filmmaking. Underground is touching, hilarious, and new.
September 23, 2014
A rich, vibrant, visually spectacular survey of the changes the place has gone through during the past 50 years.
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.
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.

