Underground (1995)
(Il était une fois un pays)
Country: HUN/FR/GER
Technical: col/scope 170m
Director: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Synopsis:
Two black marketeers in wartime Yugoslavia both love the same woman; one keeps her from the other by letting his comrades believe from their cellar refuge that the war is still going on in 1961. By 1992 brother is killing brother but the dream of a united country lives on.
Review:
An over-ambitious exercise which wants to be Fellini, Resnais and Rossellini all at the same time. Even at this length it cannot balance a serious political message with cartoon violence and non-stop gypsy music and hope to come up with something articulate. But there are moments of greatness and the actors make good company.
(Il était une fois un pays)
Country: HUN/FR/GER
Technical: col/scope 170m
Director: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Synopsis:
Two black marketeers in wartime Yugoslavia both love the same woman; one keeps her from the other by letting his comrades believe from their cellar refuge that the war is still going on in 1961. By 1992 brother is killing brother but the dream of a united country lives on.
Review:
An over-ambitious exercise which wants to be Fellini, Resnais and Rossellini all at the same time. Even at this length it cannot balance a serious political message with cartoon violence and non-stop gypsy music and hope to come up with something articulate. But there are moments of greatness and the actors make good company.
(Il était une fois un pays)
Country: HUN/FR/GER
Technical: col/scope 170m
Director: Emir Kusturica
Cast: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Synopsis:
Two black marketeers in wartime Yugoslavia both love the same woman; one keeps her from the other by letting his comrades believe from their cellar refuge that the war is still going on in 1961. By 1992 brother is killing brother but the dream of a united country lives on.
Review:
An over-ambitious exercise which wants to be Fellini, Resnais and Rossellini all at the same time. Even at this length it cannot balance a serious political message with cartoon violence and non-stop gypsy music and hope to come up with something articulate. But there are moments of greatness and the actors make good company.