Official Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic Marko as Marko …. Mirjana Jokovic Natalija as Natalija …. Slavko Stimac Ivan as Ivan. Mirjana Karanovic Vera as Vera.
Milena Pavlovic Jelena as Jelena. Bora Todorovic Golub as Golub. Davor Dujmovic Bata as Bata. Nele Karajlic. Branislav Lecic Mustafa as Mustafa. Erol Kadic Janez as Janez. Predrag Zagorac Tomislav as Tomislav. Hark Bohm Dr. Strasse as Dr. Petar Kralj Dr. Mirkovic as Dr. Emir Kusturica. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations.
A black-marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter"--only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.
Let the wild life of politics begin. Comedy Drama Fantasy War. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia The director's cut ran for over minutes. Quotes Marko : A war is no war until the brother kills his brother. Alternate versions There is a minutes version of this film produced for television. Connections Featured in Cannes User reviews Review. Top review. Unfortunately, there's no DVD But one day, the slaves will leave the basement and will find their country devastated by the civil war….
French trailer. Buy online : Amazon. It is not only because it won the Golden Palm of the last festival of Cannes. There has been many lines written about the uncommon length of his shooting, on the exceptional means that CIBY put together to allow the making of a fresco which embraces a period of fifty years and the visionary genius of its author.
And this country, as each one knows, from now on, is a country which doesn't exist any more; an idea, a dream killed by human passions.
Found in the street to play in When father was away on business , he is the exceptional Perhan in Time of the Gypsies , and then the ill brother Bata, in Underground. This making-of was broadcast in January on CanalSatellite in French. It shows many unknown scenes, gives a deep analysis of the movie themes, and its relationships with the events of Some keys to help understanding the symbols in Underground. There is a long version of this film 5h , broadcast in episodes both on Yugoslav and French television, then commercialised by TF1 video in double VHS tapes sets.
For its re-release in Japan, in septembre , the film gets a dedicated mini-website : eiganokuni. Underground a textual examination by Bryan Turnock This 17 pages study examines the ability of Underground's postmodernist approach to highlight how accepted truths can be manipulated and fictions perpetuated.
This oversizing is present at every level : in the length of the story told, in the complexity and ambiguity of the characters, the over-reacted comments in the press at its release. But let's go back to : at the beginning of the year, tension is at its maximum on the set ; after two years of hard working where Emir Kusturica rewrites the script day after day, provokes the tension between the actors in order to let them explode in front of or even behind the camera, piles the delays, the technical problems and the money spent.
Nobody knows if the film will be ready for the Cannes Film Festival ; only the director seems to believe in it. Rumours spread until the day before the festival, but finally the film is projected.
The public is astonished by a film that crosses the decades to come up to the images we saw yesterday on TV. We must remember indeed that war was raging with a rare intensity throughout all ex-Yugoslavia since , and even if Bosnia was torn apart, it resisted and even won battles on the Serbian front.
In this atmosphere where no camp seemed to be more offensor than offended, the film wins the Palme D'Or on may 22nd , by the jury, headed by Jeanne Moreau.
But three days later with the massacre of 72 young Bosnians in Tuzla, then the one of Srebrenica in July, the public opinion definitively considers the Serbians as the sole responsible of all the disasters of the war.
Is it necessary to recall that Alain Finkielkraut hadn't seen the film? Nobody criticises the baroque, epic and tragi-comic aspect of the film, and we end in considering insignificant details, forgetting to consider the film with the necessary distance. The film will be be a success in the theatres, and the whole affair will strongly affect the director to the point he claims he wants to stop making movies… He turns then toward music for a few years with his group the No Smoking Orchestra.
Today, with a 10 years distance on these events, we can only but applause the vision of the film. War was just begun and he feels the urgent need to tell the story of his country that is being torn apart under the passive western cameras. More than pages and 15 versions of the script later, filming begins in Belgrade and in Prague. Thanks to his huge cinematographic culture, Emir Kusturica puts all his obsessions in it : he always searches to pay homage to the old geniuses of the cinema with impressive homages sequences that follow each other, as well as keeping his own sensibility in telling stories and destinies of characters ; complex destinies since the central trio of the film always shows exaggerated feelings one for another… each one being sensible when we expect him to be rude, or vice-versa.
Living of love and hate, they symbolise the ambiguous relationships between the people of ex-Yugoslavia. The bet was crazy but the result is incredible : the visual pleasure explodes in every image, while telling a strong story.
The gypsy brass bands are always present, to enhance the moments of joys as well as the moments of pain. Do you remember Dolly Bell? Herceg Novi. The tribe. The drawer. No Smoking Orchestra. Emir Kusturica, actor. Behind the camera. Rasta Films. When father was away on business. Time of the Gypsies.
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