Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica (born November 24, 1954 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian filmmaker and actor.

With an impressive string of internationally acclaimed features, Kusturica is seen as one of the most creative directors in cinema during the 1980s and '90s. As well as being one of the few directors to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), he is also a recipient of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. On September 8, 2007, Kusturica has become a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Ana Ivanović, Jelena Janković and Aleksandar Đorđević.

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Emir Kusturica - what members say

La Veuve De Saint-Pierre review by The Dauphin from Cambridge

Warm hearts in a cold climate 15 February 2007
...le. The erotic tension between Madame La and Neel (a fabulous performance from Emir Kusturica) is very subtly handled, and the film avoids many of the obvious narrative dive...

Life Is A Miracle review by Azzam from Colchester

Great fun 18 October 2005
...donkey with a broken heart! Life Is A Miracle may not be the best film made by Emir Kusturica, but as usual there is a strong elemnet of fun haumaity in extreme circumstance...

Black Cat, White Cat review by A customer from North Cornelly, South Wales

Like a riot in a Car Boot Sale - welcome to the Balkans 11 May 2008
...Stripped of the political commentary of the superior 'Underground', Emir Kusturica just runs round and round the tree with his piece of rope getting shorter and shorter and h...

Emir Kusturica - filmography

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Life Is A Miracle (2 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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Bosnia, 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer from Belgrade,has installed himself in a village in the middle of nowhere with his opera singer wife, Jadranka, and their son,Milos. Luka is preparing to build the railroad that will transform the region into a tourist's paradise. Utterly engrossed in his ..read more »

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La Veuve De Saint-Pierre on DVD (2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Michel Duchaussoy
Director: Patrice Leconte
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This dark drama explores a true tale set in 1850 on the isolated French-Canadian island of St. Pierre. Yugoslav director Emir Kustirica makes a fabulous acting debut as Neele August, an illiterate fisherman who brutally murders his ex-fishing captain in a night of drunken revelry. Sentenced to ..read more »

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Black Cat, White Cat on DVD (1998)
Starring: Bajram Sevredzan, Srdan Todorovic, Branka Katic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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A comedy from the director of Underground and Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica's Black Cat White Cat is a riotous mix of farce, romance and crime. Set within a community of gypsy people, it tells a story of dodgy deals, family ties, young love and magical occurences. Zare is in love with beautiful ..read more »

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Arizona Dream on DVD (1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis
Director: Emir Kusturica
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A romantic comedy about the adventures of an innocent dreamer in the weird landscape of the American West. Caught between childhood and adulthood he finds himself back in his hometown where he becomes involved with a wealthy widow and her stepdaughter.

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Underground on DVD (1995)
Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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The story of two crooks, from their time in Nazi-bombed Belgrade in 1941 to a war-torn Yugoslavia of today.

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Time of the Gypsies (1988)
Starring: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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A well brought up gypsy boy is soon taught bad ways by the richest gypsy in the community.

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When Father Was Away on Business on DVD (1985)
Starring: Moreno D E Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the ..read more »

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Do You Remember Dolly Bell? on DVD (1981)
Starring: Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young prostitute and he falls in love with her.

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Emir Kusturica facts

5 most recent films

Life Is A Miracle - 3.0 stars
La Veuve De Saint-Pierre - 3.5 stars
Black Cat, White Cat - 3.5 stars
Arizona Dream - 3.0 stars
Underground - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Time of the Gypsies - 4.0 stars
Black Cat, White Cat - 3.5 stars
When Father Was Away on Business - 3.5 stars
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? - 3.5 stars
La Veuve De Saint-Pierre - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Arizona Dream - 3.0 stars
Underground - 3.0 stars
Life Is A Miracle - 3.0 stars
La Veuve De Saint-Pierre - 3.5 stars
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Miki Manojlovic - 2 times - show films
Slavko Stimac - 2 times - show films
Slobodan Aligrudic - 1 times - show films
Daniel Auteuil - 1 times - show films
Lili Taylor - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Patrice Leconte - 1 times - show films