The physically recovered Blacky and company are still in the cellar under the impression that the War is still going on above. In 1961, Marko is one of Tito's closest associates and advisors. Marko gives fiery speeches from the National Theater balcony during the Trieste crisis, socializes with Josip Broz Tito, Ranković and Edvard Kardelj and he stands next to Tito during military parades through downtown Belgrade. In late October, the Red Army accompanied by Yugoslav Partisans enters Belgrade. They leave with fatigued Blacky hidden in a suitcase, but Blacky is injured by a grenade.Ī few days later on Easter 1944, Marko and Natalija, now a couple, are watching a comatose Blacky. Sneaking up on Franz, Marko strangles him to death with a cord in front of Natalija who switches sides once again.
Meanwhile, Marko has found a way to enter the building through an underground sewer passage. Blacky is captured by Germans and tortured in the city hospital with electric shocks while Franz and Natalija visit her brother Bata at the same hospital. Suddenly, Franz is seen yelling, demanding Blacky and Marko release Natalija, who runs to Franz. The party is interrupted by German soldiers surrounding the anchored boat. Naturally, Marko is along as well, and all are getting ready for a forced wedding despite Natalija's protestations. With Natalija, Blacky manages to reach the river boat anchored just outside Belgrade. They see Natalija performing on stage in front of Franz and other German officers, and Blacky shoots Franz in the chest. The two best friends head for the theatre in a jovial mood. In 1944, and Blacky is in town to celebrate his son's birthday at a local communist hangout. Vera is due and gives birth to a baby boy, who she names Jovan before dying. While Blacky is off hiding in the woods as Germans are intensifying door-to-door raids in the city, Marko takes Vera, Ivan and many others into the cellar to hide.
Following their interception of a large trainload of weapons, Marko and Blacky are identified as dangerous bandits in German radio bulletins. Marko has set up weapons storage and hideaway spot in the cellar of his grandfather's house. An acclaimed, pampered, and celebrated actress in the National Theatre, Natalija has caught the eye of a high-ranking German officer named Franz. Blacky occasionally visits his mistress Natalija Zovkov who has been assigned to a special actors' labour brigade that is helping the city's rebuilding effort under German occupational control. Blacky starts operating clandestinely as a communist activist along with Marko and others. The Royal Yugoslav Army's resistance is quickly broken, and German troops soon occupy and dismember the entire Kingdom.
Encountering building ruins and escaped wild animals from the zoo, he also runs into disconsolate Ivan carrying a baby chimp named Soni. After the air raid is over, Blacky goes out against the wishes of his wife and inspects the devastated city. Suddenly, the roar of the planes is heard, and German bombs begin falling on Belgrade. Later, the hungover Blacky is eating breakfast while pregnant Vera complains about his supposed affair with a theatre actress. Marko lets Blacky's pregnant wife Vera know that they enrolled Blacky in the Communist Party (KPJ). They pass through Kalemegdan and shout salutes to Marko's brother Ivan, an animal keeper in the Belgrade Zoo. In the early morning of 6 April 1941 in Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, two roguish bon vivants Petar Popara, nicknamed Crni (Blacky) and Marko Dren are heading home. It was Kusturica's second such award after When Father Was Away on Business (1985). Underground won the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. In interviews, Kusturica stated that his original version ran for over 320 minutes, and that he was forced to cut it by co-producers. The theatrical version is 163 minutes long. The film was an international co-production with companies from Yugoslavia ( Serbia), France, Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary. The film uses the epic story of two friends to portray a Yugoslav history from the beginning of World War II until the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars. It is also known by the subtitle Once Upon a Time There Was One Country ( Serbian: Била једном једна земља/Bila jednom jedna zemlja), which was the title of the 5-hour mini-series (the long cut of the movie) shown on Serbian RTS television.
Underground ( Serbian: Подземље / Podzemlje), is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Emir Kusturica, with a screenplay co-written by the director and Dušan Kovačević.
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