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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 BH101 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... Read customer review

Arizona Dream review by A customer from North Cornelly, South Wales

Whoops - Emir! 7 June 2008
...After really enjoying everything that Emir Kusturica has done in pursuit of the Palme d'Or - I was really interested to see what his sojourn in the US yielded. Five minutes ... Read customer review

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... Read customer review

Emir Kusturica - filmography

Farewell (2009)
Starring: Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara
Director: Christian Carion
Certificate:
Based on a true story, Farewell (aka L'Affaire Farewell) documents one of the most astounding tales of espionage to come out of the Cold War. Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion (Merry Christmas), Farewell features a stellar cast including award-winning actor/director Emir ..read more »

67% from 29 members
Not available for rental

Farewell - Blu-ray (2009)
Starring: Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara
Director: Christian Carion
Certificate:
Based on a true story, Farewell (aka L'Affaire Farewell) documents one of the most astounding tales of espionage to come out of the Cold War. Directed by Academy Award nominated Christian Carion (Merry Christmas), Farewell features a stellar cast including award-winning actor/director Emir ..read more »

70% from 8 members
Not available for rental

Maradona by Kusturica on DVD (2008)
Starring: Diego Maradona
Director: Emir Kusturica
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Acclaimed filmmaker Emir Kusturica traces the remarkable story of soccer legend Diego Maradona in this documentary featuring music by composer Manu Chao. Maradona has a reputation as the people's champion, an athlete who rose from humble beginnings to achieve worldwide fame, and who has overcome ..read more »

60% from 195 members

Life Is A Miracle on DVD (2004)
Starring: Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic
Director: Emir Kusturica
Certificate:
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 work ..read more »

63% from 1,985 member

La Veuve De Saint-Pierre (2000)
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Michel Duchaussoy, Marc Beland
Director: Patrice Leconte
Certificate:
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 »

67% from 3,073 members
Not currently released

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 Ida,..read more »

74% from 3,256 members

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.

63% from 3,872 members

Arizona Dream (1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis
Director: Emir Kusturica
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Director Emir Kusturica and screenwriter David Atkins crafted this absurdest comedy in which Johnny Depp plays Axel Blackmer, who lives in New York State and is obsessed with fish. He tags fish and monitors their habits for a living, but his greatest curiosity is when and how they dream. Axel's ..read more »

57% from 2,616 members
Not currently released

Arizona Dream - Blu-ray (1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis
Director: Emir Kusturica
Certificate:
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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.

68% from 11 members
Currently unavailable

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.

79% from 112 members
Currently unavailable

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 »

69% from 788 members

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? on DVD (1981)
Starring: Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic
Director: Emir Kusturica
Certificate:
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.

68% from 405 members

Emir Kusturica facts

5 most recent films

Farewell - 3.5 stars
Farewell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Maradona by Kusturica - 3.0 stars
Life Is A Miracle - 3.0 stars
La Veuve De Saint-Pierre - 3.5 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

Farewell - 3.5 stars
Arizona Dream - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Farewell - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Arizona Dream - 3.0 stars
Maradona by Kusturica - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Slavko Stimac - 4 times - show films
Natasa Solak - 3 times - show films
Jerry Lewis - 3 times - show films
Vuk Kostic - 3 times - show films
Lili Taylor - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christian Carion - 2 times - show films
Patrice Leconte - 1 times - show films

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