Underground
Emir Kusturica
Belgrade from 1941 to 1991. Communist activists take refuge in a cellar during German bombing. A story over 50 years, divided into three chapters, three wars, marked by the breakdown of the bonds of friendship, fraternity and love of comrades Marko and Blacky. All of this against a backdrop of manipulation, lies, treason and decadence. The cellar becomes a world in itself, subject to the will of the outside world, up to a certain point...
With : Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Ernest Stötzner, Srdjan Todorovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Milena Pavlovic
Screenplay : Emir Kusturica (d'après un sujet original de Dusan Kovacevic)
Image : Vilko Filac
Sound : Petar Zivkovic, Roman Tudjarov, Martin Kulhanek, Jaroslav Stolba
Editing : Branka Ceperac
Decors : Miljen Kljakovic
Music : Goran Bregovic
Screenplay : Emir Kusturica (d'après un sujet original de Dusan Kovacevic)
Image : Vilko Filac
Sound : Petar Zivkovic, Roman Tudjarov, Martin Kulhanek, Jaroslav Stolba
Editing : Branka Ceperac
Decors : Miljen Kljakovic
Music : Goran Bregovic
Production : Ciby 2000, Komuna Film, Pandora Film Produktion
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Kusturica regularly revisits his cultural, political and historical roots in Yugoslavia. With Underground he explores the theme of war and illustrates the murderous madness of decades of conflict. "The fact of having lived in a country and seeing that it no longer exists is a terrible loss for me" (Emir Kusturica). Hiding behind a backdrop of burlesque parties and deafening music is a tragedy whose starting point is three destructive wars. The chaos and excessiveness of the film are a reflection of this country which has been destroyed by conflicts, but which is inhabited by an unshakable vitality and madness. "A war film or, more exactly and more originally, a film with a war, a film which itself is a siege: war seen as a rock concert" (Libération).