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Underground can capture your most sensitive part, familiar with Kurosawa's red beard. The comedy element make me think of Chaplin's work. Underground give me a chance to understand Yugoslavia and deeply symphony this nation. It's respectable,like Czech and hungarian,puny but filled with wisdom and strong character. The end scene of the film is unforgettable. Kusturica's work really embody the great meaning of the movie.

All I can say about Underground, is that if you havent seen it,you must go right now and look for it.. It is a brilliant film of Kusturika, with a great plot and a great management of the drama of war.. I am not from that part of the world, but I have to tell you, it doesnt matter, you will still love it... and the music of the movie keeps playing on my head... A masterpiece that will remain on my memories for many more time...

This movie was shown on TV some weeks ago,when the war in Kosovo was on.I saw it at night & now it seems for me to be just my own fantasy more than a real movie. It impressed me more than something else.Due to the film I understood why Serb people are so close to Russians: they can keep on laughing, when things are bad. It's a precious feature."UNDERGROUND" is a unique film as it is continued in a real life.That's why I call it "a prophecy"!

possible SPOILERS below. i know a lot of folks love this movie but i must say after seeing the video that i just don't get it. the first 1/3 or so of the movie is interesting and well done - the bombing effects and zoo animals is very powerful and the partisans are well portrayed and frequently amusing. however once the war seems to be won the movie completely loses me. i don't understand why the villagers are in the basement for apparently decades (they must be really stupid) or how the war movie fits into this - the movie seems to jump back and forth between different time frames or topics and ultimately became unwatchable for me. i just didn't derive anything from this in terms of plot development, character development or anything else on a deep level. maybe it's a movie that is best understood by eastern europeans, several people have said that it seems very typical of a yugoslavian or balkan way of thinking.

On winning the Palm d'Or of the Cannes Festival, UNDERGROUND was the film that made the Bosnian director Emir Kusturica known worldwide and celebrated as one of the most prominent creators of the contemporary European cinema. After some works more or less known as TIME OF THE GYPSIES (1988) and ARIZONA DREAM (1993), Kusturica saw his work finally recognized all over the world with UNDERGROUND, a poetic fable about the stormy and bloody history of his country, Yugoslavia. It's a film that amuses himself with the history of Yugoslavia, who plays with the unique characteristics of a people who made the connection between the west and the east, but who at the same time shows a enormous respect for that same people and that history. Kusturica films the disintegration of his country as a giant farce. A proof of love for a country, for a culture and for a people. Besides that the soundtrack is fabulous.

Utter nonsense, that tedious surrealist touch characteristic of Kusturica, some bizarre humour, a love story that is not one bit interesting, and a convoluted plot that I am sure Kusturica would like to sell as some sort of allegory of the entire post-war period in Yugoslavia, including the civil wars of the 1990s. I didn't care for any of these characters, and some of them I found quite annoying. Especially the obligatory feeble-minded ones, who seem to be another staple of Kusturica's movies. This time we get no less than three of them. One is the dumb son of one of the major protagonists, the other is a weirdo who spends time with a monkey (and is about as intelligent as that monkey), and the third one is a guy in a wheelchair, whose mental defects one can't even begin to describe. This is an unpleasant film, that offers no real message and no catharsis. Thus it is a failure. For me, it was an abuse to have to sit through it.

The Serbs where so proud of this film when it first came out. At the time they were super proud and overly proud of anything left them. I hope they understood the film and were not simply proud at how fun and crazy their people can be, we knew that already. War is such a terrible thing, it does not matter who started, we are all brothers and sisters, thats the point. This film makes it look like war is a natural thing to a Serb as though they did not know any better like the Arabs. And that after decades nothing has changed or gained any sophistication in that part of the world, at least up until then. Thats the impression this film gave me. We will all turn one upon the other and meet in heaven....Ah thats nice.....not. This is a long film but its so good that you will not notice how long it was.