Underground (Serbo-Croatian: Podzemlje, Serbian Cyrillic: Подземље) is a 1995 award-winning film directed by Emir Kusturica with a screenplay by Dušan Kovačević.
It is also known by the subtitle Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (Serbian: Била једном једна земља, Bila jednom jedna zemlja), which was the title of the 5-hour mini-series shown on Serbian RTS television.
The film uses the epic story of two friends to symbolically depict and satiri...
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Underground (Serbo-Croatian: Podzemlje, Serbian Cyrillic: Подземље) is a 1995 award-winning film directed by Emir Kusturica with a screenplay by Dušan Kovačević.
It is also known by the subtitle Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (Serbian: Била једном једна земља, Bila jednom jedna zemlja), which was the title of the 5-hour mini-series shown on Serbian RTS television.
The film uses the epic story of two friends to symbolically depict and satirise the history of Yugoslavia since the Second World War. The film was an international co-production between companies from FR Yugoslavia, France, Germany and Hungary.
The theatrical version is 163 minutes long. In interviews, Kusturica stated that his original version ran for over 320 minutes, and that he was forced to cut it by co-producers.
The film follows three characters through Yugoslavia's history, from World War II to the Cold War and finally the Yugoslav wars.
The film opens in Belgrade in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 6,...
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