Ernst Stötzner

In the shadow of WWI, a connection between a grieving German and a Frenchman laying flowers at her late fiancé’s grave propels a haunting romance.

A billionaire's daughter from posh Heidelberg pretends to be in a relationship with a struggling boxer from a working-class neighbourhood.

A deeply moving and masterful tragic-farce, Underground tells the story of Marko and Blacky, two charming rogues making a living on the black market by stealing arms to sell on to the Partisans. Both men are in love with Natalija, and in the chaos of war, Marko orchestrates a way to eliminate his competition, by hiding him away in a cellar by means of an elaborate charade.

Filled with veterans, invalids, widows, orphans, exiles, and deportees, nations try to rebuild. But they are still grieving the thousands of unknown soldiers buried in the mud of the battlefields.