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Underground
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7.7Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Cast
- Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović as Marko Dren
- Lazar Ristovski as Petar 'Crni' Popara
- Mirjana Joković as Natalija Zovkov
- Slavko Štimac as Ivan Dren
- Ernst Stötzner as Franz
- Srđan 'Žika' Todorović as Jovan Popara
Themes
- world war ii
- lie
- cellar
- resistance fighter
- belgrade
- anarchic comedy
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Ratings
IMDb
8/10
62,796 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
79/100
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 167 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 8 wins & 11 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Emir Kusturica
- Screenplay by
- Dušan Kovačević Emir Kusturica
- Story by
- Dušan Kovačević
- Produced by
- Maksa Ćatović Pierre Spengler Karl Baumgartner
- Starring
- Miki Manojlović Lazar Ristovski Mirjana Joković Slavko Štimac
- Cinematography
- Vilko Filač
- Edited by
- Branka Čeperac
- Music by
- Goran Bregović
- Production companies
- Ciby 2000 Pandora Film Novofilm A.B. Barrandov Komuna Radio Television of Serbia Mediarex ETIC Tchapline Films Film Fonds Hamburg Eurimages
- Distributed by
- Ciby 2000 (France) Komuna (FR Yugoslavia)
- Release date
- 1 April 1995 ( 1995-04-01 ) (FR Yugoslavia)
- Running time
- 170 minutes
- Countries
- Yugoslavia ( Serbia ) Bulgaria Czech Republic France Germany Hungary
- Languages
- Serbian, German
- Budget
- €12.5 million
- Box office
- $171,082 (North America)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 163
- FilmAffinity ID
- 647417
Show 4 more facts
- publication date
- 1997-06-20
- title
- Podzemlje
- review score
- 79/100
- capital cost
- 12500000
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Article
Underground (Serbian: Подземље, romanized: Podzemlje), is a 1995 epic satirical absurdist dark comedy war film directed by Emir Kusturica, with a screenplay co-written with Dušan Kovačević. It is also known by the subtitle Once Upon a Time There Was One Country (Serbian: Била једном једна земља / Bila jednom jedna zemlja), the title of the five-hour miniseries (the long cut) shown on Serbian RTS television.
The film uses the epic story of two friends to portray a Yugoslav history from the beginning of World War II until the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars. It is an international co-production with companies from Yugoslavia (Serbia), France, Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary. The theatrical version is 163 minutes long. Kusturica stated in interviews that his original version ran for over five hours, and that co-producers forced edits.