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Underground
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1995 · Film · 170 min
Directed by Emir Kusturica
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 Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
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Kusturica's movie "Underground" captures the Yugoslav vibe quite vividly, highly recommend
Yugoslav nostalgia is very popular as well, so much it has a name: yugonostalgia. The movie Underground[1] by acclaimed director Emir Kusturica is a fabulous study of this phenomenon and a fantastic movie on its own.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/
I use exactly two approaches. First is I buy movies (and sometimes TV shows) on iTunes. Second, I do pirate. But for me, I only pirate when the movie I'm looking for is not available. The moment I can buy it on iTunes, I do, and ditch the pirated copy that I have. So for me it is entirely about availability. And before anyone says that if I subscribed to a half dozen steaming services I'd have that availability, I'll say that most, if not all the movies that I have pirated are very obscure things that I have never seen on any service--Baby of Macon, Meet the Feebles, Underground, and (surprisingly) most recently Spider.
That strategy has been used throughout the decades after WW2, including in various parts of Croatia to help instigate secession. Maybe it has to do something with the mentality of the region? There is a fantastic movie [1] by Emir Kusturica that absolutely nails the way of thinking, where a protagonist lives in a bunker believing the war never ended.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(1995_film)
> Black Cat, White Cat
I was introduced to this region's cinema with Kusturica's Underground.
That reminds me of a certain older movie (Underground, by Kusturica) where the main characters live for decades underground hiding from Nazi Germany not realizing the war was over long ago on the surface).
This makes me wonder what a game based on a Kusturica movie like Underground would actually look like.
Wow! A movie I really loved that showed similar (fictional) story is Emir Kusturica's Underground - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/
This summary written by an anonymous in the imdb site: "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."
I was actually listening to the sound-track for the last week (Thanks to Goran Bregovic)
Emir Kusturica needs to make a movie out of this. Perhaps a sequel to Underground?
the film is based on the book, "Underground", Suelette Dreyfus, ISBN 1863305955, Random House, 1997. Free electronic copy at ~ http://www.underground-book.net/ or and 'out of print' copy at Amazon ~ http://www.amazon.com/Underground-Hacking-Obsession-Electronic-Frontier/dp/1863305955?tag=duckduckgo-canonical-20