
EalingStudiosinGreatBritainreleasedUndercoveronJuly27,1943ontheguerrillaresistancemovementinAxis-occupiedYugoslavia.Undercoverwasre-releasedbyColumbiaPicturesonSeptember14,1944intheUnitedStatesunderthetitleUndergroundGuerrillas.ThemoviewasoriginallyentitledChetnikandwastodocumenttheYugoslavChetnikresistancemovementheadedbyDrazaMihailovich.BecausethemoviewasreleasedwhenBritishsupportforMihailovichwaswaning,however,thefilmwasre-editedandreferencestoMihailovichandtheChetniksweredeleted.Themovieisinvaluable,nevertheless,asacinematicaccountoftheresistancemovementheadedbyDrazaMihailovichandtheChetnikguerrillasandhowtheperceptionoftheirrolechanged.<br/> JohnClementsstarredasCaptainMiloshPetrovitch,aSerbianguerrillaresistanceleaderinGerman-occupiedYugoslavia,modeledcloselyonDrazaMihailovich.MaryMorrisplayedAnnaPetrovitch,hiswife.StephenMurrayplayedMiloshPetrovitch'sbrother,StephanPetrovitch,modeledonMiloshSekulich,aSerbianphysicianwhohadworkedattheMunicipalHospitalinBelgradefrom1935to1941andwhofledtoLondontoturnoveramemorandumthatdocumentedthegenocidecommittedagainstSerbsbyCroatsandBosnianMuslimsintheUstashaNDHNazi-alliedstate.<br/> MiloshPetrovitchformsaguerrillaarmyinthemountainsofSerbiaattackingGermantroopsandblowingupbridgesandmountaintunnels.StephanPetrovitchgoesundercoverandpretendstobeaquislingandcollaboratorinordertoobtaininformationfromtheGermanforcestopassalongtotheguerrillas.TheclimacticsceneisapitchedbattlebetweenSerbianguerrillasandGermantroops.TheSerbianguerrillasdefeattheGermantroopsandinfiltratethemountainsfromwheretheyplanfutureattacksagainstAxistroops.<br/> MichaelWildingplaysConstantine,oneoftheSerbianguerrillas.StanleyBaker,inhisfirstmovieroleattheageoffourteen,playsaSerbianstudent,Petar.RobertHarrisplaysGermanofficerColonelBrock,whoorderstheexecutionofsixSerbianschoolchildrenbyafiringsquadforresistingtheNazioccupationofSerbia.AcademyAwardnominatedscreenwriterJohnDightonco-wrotethescreenplay.<br/> UndercoverremainsanimportantWorldWarIImovieontheresistancemovementinYugoslaviaandinSerbia.ThemovieshowshowtheperceptionoftheroleofDrazaMihailovichandtheChetnikguerrillasintheresistancemovementwasalteredandmanipulatedtoreflectandtoaccommodatethepoliticalmachinationsandcalculationsofthattime.Nevertheless,UndercoverisaninvaluablefilmaccountoftheYugoslavianresistancemovementledbyDrazaMihalovichandtheChetnikguerrillas,eventhoughpresentedinagenericandfictionalizedaccount.





