Underground

Underground

  • Director: Emir Kusturica
  • Writer: Dusan Kovacevic,Emir Kusturica
  • Countries of origin: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Bulg
  • Language: Serbian, German, French, English, Russian
  • Release date: June 20, 1997
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Once Upon a Time There Was a Country
  • "Underground" is a feature film directed by Yugoslavian director Emir Kusturica, starring Lazar Ristovski , Miki Manorovic, Miriana Jokovic, and Slavko Stimac . It was released in France on October 25, 1995. .
    The film tells the tortuous history of Yugoslavia from the Nazi occupation in 1941 to the end of the civil war in 1995.

    Details

    • Release date June 20, 1997
    • Filming locations Belgrade, Serbia
    • Production companies CiBy 2000, Pandora Filmproduktion, Novofilm

    Box office

    Budget

    $14,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $171,082

    Gross worldwide

    $171,082

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jaylen 2022-07-25 16:07:27

      Underground--Social Situations and Heroic Deeds in War

      The film shows the director's understanding and complex emotions of the Yugoslav nation through the legendary lives of the three protagonists—intellectual and speculator Ma Gao, his friend Hei Zai, and their common love, Natalie. Although the film is two and a half hours long, it does not make people feel lengthy at all. The whole film is full of whimsy and has a strong surrealist element. It is a veritable epic film....

    • By Devon 2022-06-10 10:20:32

      Movie"Underground": Where am I in History

      It's okay. Maybe because I've watched too many movies about time, I don't think it's very brain-burning, and I can understand it in one go. The setting is not particularly novel, and it is the kind of setting that requires mindless obedience to the screenwriter. I hit about 7 points. Given the overall goodness, I gave it 4 stars.

    • By Lacey 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      go underground

      I still have to record this "Underground", although I once fell asleep during the viewing process. The reason for falling asleep is that the plot is protracted, the dialogue is lengthy, and the performance is too much deliberately, but I know that these are not faults. In essence, it is because I don’t know much, lack of appreciation ability, and cultural differences. Why are some bridges so unique and wonderful? Just because I understand it. For example, at the beginning of the impressive...

    • By Cameron 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      Underground Above and Underwater

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      Underground darkness, above-ground history, and underwater make fantasy come true.

      Everyone swam together and played blowing instruments in the water. The character in Song Dancing Ping breaks the fourth wall and says to the camera "

      When everyone remembers history, they all have a country” (the good and evil of human nature in history cannot be described in one word. There is...

    • By Zachary 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      Transfer: An Analysis of Metaphors in "Underground"

      Original author: Sheng Shan In: "Film Literature", 2017 (20) Kusturica is a director with a very personal style. His films are not only different from Hollywood's narrative style, but also different from European art films. The tendency to present philosophical thinking in restraint is different, but it is good at showing the charm of carnival narrative in absurd, exaggerated and surreal expressions. But this carnival is not superficial and meaningless, but is full of sharp realpolitical...

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    • By Keith 2023-09-13 03:55:28

      There's so much in this epic movie. War, carnival, banter, machinations, sex and betrayal, people's hardships, exile and destruction of citizens, changing times and subterranean utopias, fateful fate, magicism, godlike endings. . . This movie is amazing, Kusturica is awesome. (I always feel that there are a lot of his things in Jiang Wen's movies. The picture of the goose goose group walking is simply "Let the Bullets Fly" Goose City has a visual...

    • By Raven 2023-09-06 00:33:51

      All-inclusive. I am very partial to this type of film with rich images. I think of "Amakod", and "One Step Away" is also the way. When constructing a worldview, it is inevitable that there are intentions, and if it is based on memories or dreams, there will be exemptions. An infinitely readable, maddening poem of carnival-esque spectacle, offbeat behavior, and cause and effect. At the beginning, the wartime resistance is described in an almost mad comedy way, and at the end of the war part, it...

    • By Jerald 2023-08-27 15:09:34

      Another name for madness is Kusturica! In this land that is also prone to bang-level disasters, there are scenes of human tragedies and historical farces that are similar, familiar, and different, which are both expected and unexpected. The film is like a requiem, more like a broken dream, and the final utopia is a magical stroke of magic. (The soundtrack is godlike! Who can not move when Dvorak 9...

    • By Trycia 2023-08-09 17:51:51

      Jesus, head down on the cross, is next to a wheelchair with two burning corpses circling frantically. In the middle is a man who lost his wife and children and was deceived by his comrades for several years. He murmured to himself why this was the case, why his missing son could never be found again. In the water that year, his son sank to the bottom of the river and swam away like a fish with his bride. The whole movie is like a work of art in the wild era, cut with a few knives, with the...

    • By Alexis 2023-08-09 09:44:57

      marvelous! ! I was shocked! ! The surreal colors make me cry and laugh! ! This kind of performance is what war gives people! ! What is it, it's a hateful war, it's the nudity of human nature, it's Natalie's entanglement! ! It was the younger brother who killed the older brother! ! It's the gorilla's face and weeping, and it's Kudo's questioning to God! ! What a war, what a motherland! ! When they live in harmony on the island in harmony, I hope that people can always...

    Movie plot

    Yugoslavia in 1941 was in a period of German fascist occupation. One night, Marko invited a small band to join the party to celebrate his friend Petar's joining the Communist Party. He and Petar both drank brandy, drove through the empty streets in a carriage, and even fired shots and cheered. Petar is robbed home by his nagging wife, and Marko goes to find a prostitute and fool around. Marko’s brother Ivan is a zoo keeper. He is...
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    "Underground" shows the director's understanding and complex emotions of Yugoslavia through the legendary life of three protagonists: intellectual and speculator Margo, his friend Hei Zi, and their common lover Natalie. Although the film is two and a half hours long, it doesn't make people feel lengthy at all. The whole film is full of whimsical ideas and has a strong surrealistic color. It is a veritable epic film. Although the plot...
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    Movie quotes

    • Ivan: Bila jednom jedna zemlja. Once upon a time... there was a country...

    • Marko: A war is no war until the brother kills his brother.

    • Marko: We're all crazy, Natalija. We just haven't been diagnosed yet.

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