DVD
Underground
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
In Serbo-Croat, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Ernst Stötzner, Srdjan Todorovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Milena Pavlovic.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2018]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (170 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, Emir Kusturica's UNDERGROUND is a carnivalesque classic of wartime profiteering and betrayal. Marko and Blacky are two suspicious characters who make their living on the black market by stealing arms to sell to the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII. They make a killing, but their relationship breaks down in the face of Natalija, an actress who bewitches them both. Their lust turns into a paranoid mania, and Marko makes the delirious decision to lock Blacky in an underground cellar, trying to convince him that the war is still going on outside, and that Blacky is safer to stay hidden, manufacturing arms there in secret. This outrageous deception carries on for 20 years, and the repercussions resound through the remainder of Yugoslav history.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Bonus features: Once upon a time there was a country - six-part TV of Underground (327 minutes) ; Shooting days - 1996 documentary on the making of Underground ; behind-the-scenes footage ; trailers ; interviews with cast and crew.
Contents
- Underground Once upon a time there was a country