Kusturica's complete UNDERGROUND
October 8, 1999
Sponsored by Grand Marnier
Additional suppport from La Perla
and the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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the 37th new york film festival at the walter reade theater:
Kusturica's complete UNDERGROUND October 8, 1999 Sponsored by Grand Marnier Additional suppport from La Perla
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Main Program |
Views from the Avant-Garde |
Pietro Germi Retrospective |
Kusturica's UNDERGROUND |
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS |
Lanzmann's A VISITOR FROM THE LIVING | NYFF Archive
Visually dazzling and profoundly moving, UNDERGROUND is Emir
Kusturica's passionate rendering of Yugoslav history in the postwar era.
During an air raid, a diverse group of partisans and others hide out in an
enormous basement storeroom; years pass, and long after the war is over they
remain hidden, convinced that the battle outside is still raging. Yet when
they finally do re-emerge, they are caught up in a new, different kind of
struggle. This video presentation encompasses all five hours and 12 minutes
of the original television version, with a 20-minute intermission. 312
minutes, France/Germany; 1995.
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