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IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UN PAYS
(1995)
List of alternative names
- UNDERGROUND
- ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COUNTRY
- ES WAR EINMAL EIN LAND
- PODZEMLJE - BILA JEDOM JEDNA ZEMLJA
- PODRUM - DER KELLER
- Copyright date
- 1995
- Production start date
- 11/1993
- Production end date
- 1995
Production countries
- France
- United Germany
- Hungary
- Notes
- Not available
Library Synopsis
Black comedy set in Yugoslavia from 1941-1992. A group of partisans in Belgrade, hiding underground from the Nazis, are tricked into believing that the war is still going on twenty years later. In the cellar they continue to manufacture weapons, while the beneficiary of this situation becomes an important party boss.
Top five credits
- Director
- KUSTURICA, Emir
- ©/Production Company
- CiBy 2000
- Production Company
- Pandora Filmproduktion
- Production Company
- Novo Film
- Support
- Film Fonds Hamburg
Top five cast
- Marko
- MANOJLOVIC, Miki
- Petar 'Blacky' Popara
- RISTOVSKI, Lazar
- Natalija
- JOKOVIC, Mirjana
- Ivan
- STIMAC, Slavko
- Franz
- STÖTZNER, Ernst