Underground
Underground, is a 1995 epic satirical black comedy war film directed by Emir Kusturica, with a screenplay co-written with Dušan Kovačević. It is also known by the subtitle Once Upon a Time There Was One Country, the title of the five-hour miniseries (the long cut) shown on Serbian RTS television.
Plot
In the morning of 6 April 1941 in Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, two bon vivants, Petar Popara, nicknamed Crni (Blacky) and Marko Dren, head home. They pass through Kalemegdan and shout salutes to Marko's brother Ivan, an animal keeper in the Belgrade Zoo. Marko lets Blacky's pregnant wife Vera know that they enrolled Blacky in the Communist Party (KPJ).
Awards
Cast
- Albena Stavreva
- Borivoje Todorović
- Branislav Lečić
- Branko Petkovic
- Danilo Stojković
- Davor Dujmović
- Dragan Nikolić
- Elizabeta Đorevska
- Emir Kusturica
- Ernst Stötzner
- Erol Kadić
- Hark Bohm
- Helmut Schmidt
- Josif Tatić
- Kurt Waldheim
- Lazar Ristovski
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Ljiljana Jovanović
- Miki Manojlović
- Milena Pavlović
- Mirjana Joković
- Mirjana Karanović
- Nele Karajlić
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Pierre Spengler
- Predrag Milinković
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Rick Dano
- Slavko Štimac
- Srđan Todorović
- Stojan Sotirov
- Željko Mitrović