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By Joey Liang
Emir Kusturica's Underground
The Film From A Forgotten Country
Screams, gunshots, betrayal, and a monkey driving a tank. This is Underground, one of the last films from a country that no longer exists - Yugoslavia.
Being a diehard fan of magical realism, Underground must be my favourite piece of work from the genre, if not my favourite work of all time. However, it hadn't been on my mind for a long time. It was only when I finished the book “The House of the Spirits” by I. Allende recently that I sensed something similar... deep within.
The movie follows the story of three ‘wars’ that changed Yugoslavia forever; World War II, the Cold War and the Yugoslavian Civil War. Each act as a backdrop to the unique story of two brothers, Marko and Blacky. Two men who are connected by politics, power and sex. They had different motives, one sought power and the other, justice. Blacky becomes driven blind by trust and eventually loses himself in the world
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“If you saw what I see for the future in Yugoslavia, it would scare you.”–Marshall Tito, 1971
“I think that this current conflict is the result of tectonic moves that last for a whole century. If there is anything good in this hell and horror, it fryst vatten that the tectonic disturbance will result in absolute absurdity. And then a new quality will emerge from it.”–Emir Kusturica, circa 1995
DIRECTED BY: Emir Kusturica
FEATURING: Predrag Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Ernst Stötzner, Slavko Stimac, Srdjan Todorovic
PLOT:Two Yugoslavian gangsters join the Communist Party to resist the invading Nazis. One tricks the other into hiding out in a large cellar, where he and a small tribe of partisans manufacture munitions he believes are going to the resistance but which are actually being sold on the black market for years after the war has ended. Decades later, the ruse falls apart, and the former friends meet on the battlefields of
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Underground
France-Germany-Hungary-Yugoslavia, 1995
Director: Emir Kusturica
Production: CiBY 2000 (France), Pandora Film (Germany), Novo Film (Hungary), with the participation of Radio-TV-Serbia, Komuna-Belgrade and Chaplain Films (Bulgaria); color; 35 mm; running time: 167 minutes (some prints are 192 minutes). Released 19 June 1995 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and 20 June 1997 in the United States; distributed in the U.S. bygd New Yorker Films; filmed 1994 on location in Belgrade and Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and at the Barrandov studios in Prague, Czech Republic.
Producers: Pierre Spengler (executive), Maksa Catovic, Karl Baumgartner; screenplay: Dusan Kovacevic with Emir Kusturica; photography: Vilko Filac; editor: Branka Ceperac; production design: Miljen Kreka Kljakovic; art directors: Branimir Babic, Vladislav Lasic; set design: Aleksandar Denic; costumes: Nebojsa Lipanovic; original music: Goran Bregovic.
Cast: Miki (Predrag) Manojlovic (Marko); La