Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko eventually abandons Blacky, steals his girlfriend, continues to sell illegal arms and drugs when the war is already over.
July 17, 1973 in Belgrade, Serbia
25 August 1955, Sabac, Serbia, Yugoslavia
December 21, 1918 in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Lower Austria, Austria
28 January 1957, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
2 September 1947, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
24 November 1967, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
15 October 1960, Konjsko Brdo near Perusic, Croatia, Yugoslavia
19 June 1965, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
25 August 1946, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
25 July 1947, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
January 26, 1918 in Scornicesti, Olt, Romania
11 January 1961, Skoplje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia
10 June 1921, Villa of Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
May 25, 1892 in Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]
6 October 1975, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
4 April 1941, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
5 April 1950, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
20 August 1933, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
May 30, 1923 in Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbia, Yugoslavia
13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK
19 June 1955, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
1952, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
March 24, 2016
Acknowledged as the Bosnian director Emir Kusturica's masterpiece, Underground is a hallucinogenic comic romp through Yugoslavia's troubled history over 50 years.
September 23, 2014
A rich, vibrant, visually spectacular survey of the changes the place has gone through during the past 50 years.
September 23, 2014
Kusturica takes us from wacky farce to harrowing grief to lyrical fantasy to bloody horror. To ignore any side of Underground is to do it injustice.
September 23, 2014
Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.
September 23, 2014
Underground is a bizarre, often repellent anti-war parable that takes forever to state the obvious but hits some scattered high notes on the way.
May 23, 2004
Kusturica creates memorable characters and puts them in increasingly surreal scenarios, but he's awfully long-winded in the storytelling. Trim an hour off this beast and you've got a masterpiece.
April 19, 2004
It's an admirable, interesting wartime satire, but it has a vaguely distasteful feel that makes its 167 minutes a difficult slog.
June 29, 2004
Brilliant, outrageous filmmaking. Underground is touching, hilarious, and new.
June 18, 2012
On balance, Kusturica is sturdier on style than substance.
January 21, 2004
Whether you'll share the filmmaker's indulgence of his larger-than-life characters is questionable, but the Fellini-esque wedding feast on a floating island makes for a memorable closing sequence.
September 23, 2014
A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole.
March 26, 2009
Emir Kusturica's epic black comedy about Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1992 is a three-hour steamroller circus that leaves the viewer dazed and exhausted, but mightily impressed.

