Round 10: Tossup 5

Comedies by a screenwriter of this ethnicity include a 1982 film about six undertakers called The Marathon Family and a 1980 film that uses an accordion player as a Greek chorus to describe the travails of passengers on a bus. This is the ethnicity of the crews of Who’s Singin’ Over There? and a film that closes with a surreal wedding, where a man drops his stutter to give a meta-monologue about fairy tales beginning, “once upon a time, there was a country.” A philosopher has feuded with a director of this ethnicity for catering to the Western gaze in a film in which a chimpanzee fires a (*) tank’s gun. (10[1])A director of this ethnicity depicted the lives (-5[1])of nomads in a 1988 film about a telekinetic teenager and the comedy Black Cat, White Cat. That director (10[1]-5[1])of this ethnicity won the 1995 Palme d’Or for an absurdist satire in which Marko uses Nazi (-5[1])occupation as a front (10[1])to confine the bandit “Blacky” to a bunker. For 10 points, name this ethnicity of the director of Underground, (10[2])Emir Kusturica (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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