Underground (1995)

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The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations... (imdb)

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Directed By: Emir Kusturica

Written By: Emir Kusturica, Dusan Kovacevic

Starring: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Dragan Nikolic, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Slavko Stimac, Branislav Lecic, Mirjana Jokovic, Ernst Stötzner, Bora Todorovic, Milena Pavlovic

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

AKA: Podzemlje

Country: France, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia

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1. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (collaborative: moderated by kozan26 - 233 stars)

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3. Favorite Film of Every Criticker Member (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 95 stars)

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7. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2008 revision) (collaborative: moderated by Scottathon - 39 stars)

8. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 38 stars)

9. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2010 revision) (collaborative: moderated by MMAlpha - 32 stars)

10. Black Comedy (collaborative: moderated by Dorkovsky - 30 stars)

11. Left-wing politics (collaborative: moderated by djross - 27 stars)

12. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2014 revision) (collaborative: moderated by Jehan - 27 stars)

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14. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2012 revision) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 25 stars)

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16. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2017 revision) (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 22 stars)

17. Best of criticker: Drama (collaborative: moderated by avgcrtckr - 18 stars)

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20. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2013 revision) (collaborative: moderated by rant1229 - 16 stars)

21. Slant Magazine's 100 Essential Films (collaborative: moderated by nexus - 14 stars)

22. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2011 revision) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 14 stars)

23. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2020 revision) (public: djross - 14 stars)

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40. Djross film as art (public: djross - 3 stars)

41. Djross comedy of the year (public: djross - 2 stars)

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TCI | Percentile | Date Rated | # Stars (Reviews)

Stars	User	Rating
9	MartinTeller	92 _96th
Kusturica is the cinematic equivalent of Vonnegut. Incredible characters. An ability to mine the richest humor from awful situations, but also to not forget the sadness and horror while doing it. An obvious deep love for humanity. A small touch of the surreal. He leaves you breathless... and hungry for more.
4	Herzdame	100 _95th
It is truly one of the most visionary, inspired works of art that defies genre and transcends nationality as an insane, clamorous and emotional masterpiece of Yugoslavian tragedy through its affluent symbolisms, delightfully macabre humour and visceral genius in merging reality with fantasy into a final unparalleled chorus of absolute, feral madness. Both painful and hysterical, it breeds horror and power, the sickness and beauty of the human condition. This movie is sick. It is fucking sick!
3	Magb	95 _94th
My appreciation of Underground decreased ever so slightly after I saw Time of the Gypsies, which I felt did some of the same things better, but heavens, this is awesome beyond belief. The last half hour is fucking ill.
3	triffid	97 _99th
An amazing film that is at the same time a poetic metaphor of a war, a realistic description of a war and a black comedy about a war. Brilliant in every possible way.
3	Stradivarius	95 _97th
From now on, this is what I'll think of when I use the term "black comedy". Few films are able to jump so ably, so quickly, from the tragic to the comic, from horror to innocence, and be so enjoyable to watch all the way through.
2	PeaceAnarchy	87 _87th
Kusturica straddles the line between funny and cruel, and despite stepping over it just a bit sometimes, he manages to stay on the funny side for most of the film. Fantastic commentary on the human condition and a lot of bizarre laughs in a truly unique film.
2	Stain	100 _95th
One of the best films of the '90s by a country mile. BRAVO! BRAVO! phweet phweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
2	JMBosch	94 _97th
Maybe the best film ever made about war, arms, escalation, exploitation, and the majority of society churning and boiling underneath it all, giving rise to its drives and fulfilling its needs to perpetuate. The magical realism that permeates the story grants incredible, surreal glimpses of the potential celebration, appreciation, joy, and commonality that the "underground" always has, but rarely seizes.
2	Vertiggo	94 _92nd
Man, I just can't find the right words to describe Emir Kusturica. He is certainly one of the most creative directors of the last two decades, and this movie is unique as all the others Kusturica's I've seen.
2	JohnSandwich	90 _95th
random cat shoe-shine
2	DerDude	11 _98th
An ecstatic eruption of Fellini, Renoir and Brecht. With its bold blend of art, satire and entertainment this is undeniably a masterpiece that only grew in importance since its making.
2	snallygaster	26 _15th
I'm obviously missing a lot here, because this was my top PSI yet I'm ranking it in my T2. There are some striking moments here, and occasional pathos. However, the dark comedy, which I think some find appealingly absurdist, was to me more slapstick -- it's way over the top and it never lets up. The insertion of stock (and faux-stock) footage was alienating and the running parable about 20th century Balkan history was hard to reconcile with my admittedly scant understanding of the subject.
2	lisa-	9 _99th
above all this is a monumental work of joy and music and horror and colour and sadness and tragedy, and the tragedy is laid on thicker and thicker and thicker, at which point the tragedy and the joy combine into an ending and oh my god. i am ecstatic and distraught and just in complete disbelief at what i just saw.
1	TheDiceman	70 _82nd
A surreal film which is a hell of a trip.
1	evrana	95 _96th
Hyper-poignant, it is one of the films you should watch before you die. I don't think it is possible to completely comprehend its depth, without going through it all in real life; but this is as close as you can get to understand 50 years of history of a part of the world in about 3 hours. The balkan music has the special capacity to hack my brain and bring me to a different mindset; so I think that's why I feel like I have been hit by an emotional truck right now.
1	frederic_g54	10 _97th
I love how the film maintained its light comedic tone, as the main characters seemed to sink deeper into despair. "Underground" is a beautiful, compelling and honest work of art. Kusturica not only plays with your heartstrings but is in full control of his own artistic style. A masterpiece and worthy Palme D'or winner. Recommended !!!
1	Qpeg	95 _89th
This movie creates a wounderfully strange universe that you are instantly drawn into and makes you accept a few far-fetched leaps of faith. The music makes you wish YOU were constantly followed by a brassband playing eastern european music as a soundtrack of your life. I got into this movie when I read that the band Kaizers Orchestra's lead singer wrote a lot of their first songs inspired by the moods in this movie, something which is evident eg. in the song "Resistansen" that paints a pictur
1	Evolution	94 _98th
Absolutely brilliant. I would have loved to see the 320 minute original cut.
1	closedmouth	90 _88th
Sometimes the wackiness feels forced and the satire a little obvious, and a couple of sequences didn't work for me (the scenes of Blacky and his son murdering people working on a film felt grotesque, and the epilogue is almost too long, but steps back just in time to save itself), but the way it all leads to that gut-punch of a third act felt earned, so I'm not gonna bitch. The actors are terrifyingly physical, with themselves and each other. They make South Korean actors look like ballerinas.
1	JonnyHalftab	85 _52nd
Come and See Amarcord

Average Percentile 75.46% from 1734 Ratings