Underground

1995 170 min Comedy, Drama, War

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.

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IMDb 8.0 RT 86 Metacritic 79

budget $14,000,000 earnings $182,134 return 0.0x

director Emir Kusturica

writers Dušan Kovačević, Emir Kusturica

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