Underground Page #2

Synopsis: The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Director(s): Emir Kusturica
Production: CiBy 2000
  6 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
NOT RATED
Year:
1995
167 min
2,642 Views


Excuse me.

Get me the biggest bouquet

you can find.

Sure.

- What about the priest?

- All arranged.

Perfect...

My friend,

there'll be a wedding!

Now let's play fair.

Here's my gun, give me yours.

That's fair.

This is gold. See it?

This is gold, right?

How much did the gold bring in?

Look at it!

How much did it bring in?

Look at it!

How much for the gold?

Mustafa, you said 120,000.

Never mind.

Now tell me where the weapons are

and we're done.

I swear on my mother's grave,

the Germans took them.

Leave your mother out of this!

Motherf***er!

You steal my money?

I rob banks, jewellery stores,

and you f***ers steal my money!

You dirty f***ing thieves!

I'll kill you all, you bastards!

I'll clean Belgrade

of scum like you!

Our comrades are shot in the woods,

they eat roots and you steal...

You've gone crazy!

No, guys,

we don't play this way...

Hold these, honey, please.

Faster and louder!

Here I come, my friend!

Hang on!

Watch out!

Here I come!

Not in my ear!

Left! Left! Left!

I have to tell you something,

you being the Party Secretary...

If anything,

it'll be these thieves and criminals

who'll cost us our heads.

Right. We rob stores to buy

arms and food for our comrades.

And the bastards steal from us!

"I'll kill myself.

"You say you'll kill yourself.

"But you won't do it.

"Are you so sure?

"Do you think a man can live..."

Quiet!

"...if he has nothing

and nobody to live for?

"Are you capitulating?

"No, I suggest

"that we make peace."

He's entranced by her!

I'll kill him, I swear!

The other actors don't interest him!

I think the Captain's excellent.

- Really?

- Yes, look at him!

Quiet!

Hands off.

This is a theatre, watch the show!

Good evening.

"Promise to tell me

"the truth

and I'll forgive you in advance.

"Is Berta my child?

"I cannot assume the guilt

"for a deed I didn't commit."

Get out!

Have you no shame?

"Is Berta my child?"

"Is Berta my child?"

"Is Berta my child?"

I'm coming.

Bato!

Quiet!

Uncle Blacky!

Natalija is the best!

She is the best!

Franz!

- This is a scandal.

- I know...

Captain!

Good evening, madam.

Captain...

Just a moment.

I am...

Berta's father.

I am the father of your child.

Please...

Do you understand?

Tie us together. Quickly!

I now have my Laura with me.

We're in love.

Hurry!

We're leaving your house

so we can live together.

Please don't be angry.

- Finished?

- Yes.

Thank you, captain.

I know this actor.

I know him...

Where on earth from?

Good-bye, captain.

You act for Germans,

you motherf***er!

Wonderful actor, my colleague!

Are these the mains?

Keep to your seats!

Hands up, traitor!

Hands up!

Is this the curtain?

It is but please, sir...

Uncle Blacky! Sis!

Uncle Blacky!

Charge!

You want my sister?

Well, you won't have her.

You won't!

Come on!

Hands up, my friend!

They'll kill my brother!

Blow on that horn!

I don't get married every night!

Congratulations!

Okay, Golub. Where's the priest?

I sent a boy to fetch him.

Congratulations, miss.

I'm not getting married!

Yes, you are.

You just don't know it yet.

So, I ruined your life by killing Franz.

Thank you, Natalija!

Who gets Bato's medicine,

you or Franz?

- You only bring me stolen gold!

- From traitors.

Come to your senses.

Listen to me...

I've never loved anyone so much.

But respect some rules.

No collaborating with the enemy!

Right!

What do you mean?

I'm just an actress.

The bakeries are working!

Yes, but you're not a baker.

You don't sell pies.

You sell your soul.

I personally will judge those

who sell their soul.

First, I'll kill the manager

of your theatre.

I'll strangle him with my bare hands...

because I love the theatre!

Congratulations, Mr. Blacky!

Will this dinner eat us

before we eat it?

Get that fish grilled properly.

No problem!

Have you no shame?

Others help wounded partisans

while you perform

for the bastards!

It hurts!

So now it hurts you!

I love you.

Golub!

Grill it!

Follow me, I'm going for a pee.

Watch my bride, my friend.

Let's go!

Marko!

Come on! Follow me!

I don't want to!

I don't want to get married!

Golub, I won't leave the partisans

to sort you all out.

There's no need.

You may not know this

but he's not

an electrical engineer at all.

No, he's a common electrician.

A pole-man!

He spent his whole life on poles,

with pliers and cutters.

I'm the one who got him down

and asked him:
"Comrade,

"will you join our side?"

"Yes," he said.

"Will you obey the rules

"and the orders?"

"Yes."

Until...

he got rich!

Natalija!

An electrician?

A pole-man!

Natalija,

you are our greatest actress

and our suffering people

need you.

And you need

a reasonable, intelligent,

educated man...

An intellectual!

You're right!

Comrade Leka will bring you

to the disciplinary committee.

We expected the guns a week ago.

Where are they?

On the boat.

As soon as I get married, off we go!

They can hear the music

in Belgrade!

Good!

It's Blacky's wedding.

We've had enough crying.

Are these arms or what?

Once the priest marries me,

I'll be at the White Rock

before you.

Comrade Tito!

When will you reach Uzice

"Your hands, so white

"So tender, so soft

As the wings of a bird

"Oh, to see them fly

and land on my face..."

That's enough!

Get out!

What are you doing to me?

We're just talking

about the theatre.

What?

I'll kill myself, I swear!

Don't, my friend!

You know,

I killed two men because of her!

I know.

Why do this to me?

- As for you...

- It wasn't me!

Wasn't you?

It was me, then?

Are you my best friend?

I'm your best friend.

I didn't hear.

Are you my best friend?

I'm your best friend.

Whose wedding is this?

Ours, my love! Our wedding!

Yours, my friend.

- Our wedding, sweetheart.

- Ours, my love!

You wanted a ride, did you?

Well, giddy-up, you stud!

Where's the priest?

He'll be here any minute now.

Is it moonlight at noon

Is it sunshine at midnight

From the skies above

Light is beaming...

The Germans! A catastrophe!

Nobody knows, nobody knows

What is really shining

The two of you

could make one good man!

You pest!

Get out of the cars!

Spread out!

Left and right of the boat!

Marko!

Petar Popara!

You fools!

You can't play cat and mouse!

Franz!

Come out now!

And bring Natalija with you

or I'll shoot you all!

How come? I killed him.

You didn't.

He wears a bullet-proof vest.

Aim at his head next time.

I'll smoke one more cigarette.

And then my patience runs out.

After that,

I want you out in the open.

Do you hear me?

Don't shoot!

Don't shoot!

Catastrophe!

My sweet saviour!

My dearest...

Schulz, get out!

Now let's send

this sh*t-load of criminals

back where they belong!

My little white dove!

Have fun, you idiots!

You won't forget me in a hurry!

Shoot, my friend!

Golub, don't shoot!

Catastrophe!

Shoot, my friend!

Where are the weapons, Blacky?

Where are the trains

with the weapons, bastard?

Treacherous swine!

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Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица, born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d'Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies. He has also won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Arizona Dream and a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Black Cat, White Cat. In addition he was also named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence has been in Drvengrad, a town built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the film. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011. more…

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