Underground, 170 minutes/1995
directed by Emir Kusturica
UNDERGROUND , directed by Emir Kusturica, follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during the secondWorld War 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.
Emir Kusturica creates a frenetic, delirious, farcical, insightful, and ultimately tragic allegory on the dissolution of a nation in Underground. Using surreal, repeated events that interweave reality and illusion, Kusturica presents an incisive metaphor for the turbulent and often vicious circle of Yugoslavian politics: The prophetic words, "War is not a war unless a brother kills a brother", in the end, becomes a metaphor for the dissolution of a nation through ethnic conflict, an elegy for the fractured soul of a divided country.
Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He resides in a village he had built for his film Life Is a Miracle. He won the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice (for When Father Was Away on Busines and Underground). He was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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