Radovan Marković

Alman ordusunun bombardımanı altında kalan Belgrad’da komünist Marko’nun hedeflediği ortam fazlasıyla sağlanmıştır. Zekasını sinsiliğiyle birleştiren Marko, arkadaşı Blacky ve yoldaşlarını yeraltında bulunan bir mahzene silah üretmek için yerleştirir.Marko’nun söylediklerine göre savaş bitince herkes dışarıya çıkacak ve bir yeryüzü cennetiyle karşılaşacaktır. Zaman geçip de kaos sona erip barış ilan edildiğinde yer üstünde çok şey değişir. Ama yeraltında her şey aynı şekilde devam eder. Marko yeraltındakilere faşist yönetimin tüm acımasızlığıyla hükmünü sürdürdüğünü belirterek, yeraltında silah üreten yoldaşlarına yaşamın tüm karanlığıyla devam ettiğine inandırır.

The conflict between innocence and evil is the shortest definition of the leitmotifs of the film. The story is taking place on a winter day in a remote province, far from all major events that shook the world today. A young woman teacher goes to a remote village where he got the first job after six years of waiting. Happy and hopeful that her life finally begins ... The other main feature is similar to it. Male character returns from the war in which, in fact, he was not. The first day of the war he was wounded and spent eight months in the hospital. His first job as a taxi driver on an empty train station where there is not many passengers, but it offers the peace that he needs to overcome his trauma and that gives hope that he is finally something good to happen. But harsh times threaten to destroy the dreams of the teacher and taxi drivers. Fortunately the man who is young like them, but he has completely different goals in life.

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 Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation. An extended television version of Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground.