Underground

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2004 Filmcritic.com

Emir Kusturica evokes Fellini and Jeunet in his epic Underground, which (in a greatly simplified nutshell) tells the story of a group of Yugoslavian weapons manufacturers who hide in a bomb cellar during World War II, only to come up decades later to find Yugoslavia in an entirely new situation (that of the 1990s). 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.

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Rating

3.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Emir Kusturica
  • Producer: Karl Baumgartner, Maksa Catovic
  • Screenwriter: Dusan Kovacevic, Emir Kusturica
  • Stars: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Ernst Stötzner, Srdjan Todorovic
  • MPAA Rating: NR