Emir Kusturica
Birthday: 1954-11-24
Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Biography: Emir Nemanja Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He is a two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being a Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a village in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for his film Life Is a Miracle.
Movies
Maradona by Kusturica
A documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest mo...
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Farewell
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of t...
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen a...
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Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra - Live is a Miracle in Buenos Aires
It is a live record of a show of this band in one of their first presentations in Argentina. All don...
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Secret Journey
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with cha...
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7 Days in Havana
A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and...
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Nicostratos the Pelican
After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no me...
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Underground
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, trage...
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Scenes from the Life of BH Film
The history of Bosnian cinematography over 75 years of existence....
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The Scapegoat
There is something strange - some would even say abnormal - about the Malaussène family. But if you ...
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Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom
The history, culture and tradition of Serbs living West of the Drina river, from the times of mediev...
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The Whirl
Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during t...
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The Good Thief
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already t...
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Words with Gods
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. C...
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Dule Savić and the Silence in London
The end of the match was being played when Dusan Savic ran onto the ball and sent it into Arsenal's ...
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The Ice Forest
In the harsh snowy landscape of the Italian Alps, a young technician arrives to repair an electric p...
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On the Milky Road
Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring hi...
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Who Is This Kusturica?
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker...
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"I Will Revenge This World With Love" - S. Paradjanov
The author of the film decides to leave the country where she lives, in connection with the outbreak...
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or
From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest...
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Strawberry in the Supermarket
An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted h...
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Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground
While his country Yugoslavia gradually turns into a battlefield, director Emir Kusturica guides his ...
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El Pepe: A Supreme Life
A documentary on the life of Uruguayan politician and former guerrilla fighter José Mujica....
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Balkan Spirit
Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning...
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Walter
In 1945 the forgotten Serbian World War II Hero Walter got killed while defending the occupied city ...
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Balkan Line
After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving ...
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Walter Defends Sarajevo
Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and cha...
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Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-fathe...
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CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a se...
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To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Form...
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Chaplin Today: The Circus
This documentary is featured on the Warner Bros. Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Circus," released i...
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How I Waited for the Sun
Under the warm rays of the sun, the protagonists become living still lifes, resting on benches, chai...
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Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
A revealing exploration of Chaplin’s Romani heritage constructed from intimate interviews, film extr...
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Local Heroes - World Talents
A documentary about Romani people who, through their work, have made efforts to eliminate stereotype...
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Byzantine Empire
A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Milan Bilbija, starring Senad Bašić, Snježana ...
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