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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 work and blinded by natural .. Read more

Starring Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic, Vuk Kostic
Director Emir Kusturica
Genres Comedy, World Cinema

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Life Is A Miracle

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 and blinded by natural optimism, Luka remains deaf to the increasingly persistent rumblings of war. When the conflict explodes, Luka's life is turned inside out.

Starring Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic, Vuk Kostic, Aleksandar Bercek
Director Emir Kusturica
Studio ARTIFICIAL EYE
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 34 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy, World Cinema
Language Serbo-Croatian
Subtitles English
Released DVD: 22 Aug 2005
Production year: 2004
Format DVD

Life Is A Miracle (2004)

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    No one unearths the absurdity in political tragedy with such melancholic vigour as Emir Kusturica. This frantic take on the Bosnian civil war revisits themes previously explored in the director's award-winning Underground, providing us with plenty to enjoy and even more to contemplate. Slavko Stimac stars as Luka, a Serbian railway engineer whose life is disrupted when his opera-singing wife leaves him and his soccer-mad son Milos (Vuk Kostic) is conscripted into the army. After Milos is captured, Luka intends to use Muslim nurse Sabaha (Natasa Solak) as a bargaining chip for his son's return, but he falls in love with her, complicating the hostage exchange. This is acerbic human drama, but it's almost a sideshow to the glorious set pieces that include the floodlit, fogbound football match and Milos's farewell party, played out to Kusturica's inimitable Gypsy jazz.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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    Rated - 5 stars

    Love vs. War

    This is a typical Kusturica movie. Since the setting for the story is in the horror of the Bosnian war, it is easy to miss that it is really a story of love - for family, for neighbours, for lovers.

    The characters are beautifully developed - no impossible heroics, full of imperfections and with complex relationships.

    But, be prepared for a lot of symbolism throughout the two and a half hours.

      • A customer from London, UK
      • Posted 04 Sep 2005 23:00

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    Rated - 4 stars

    More Balkan madness

    And the award for most insane football game goes to...

    And the award for the most incongruous phone sex goes to...

    And the award for the most imaginative use of railway lines goes to...

    Life is a very bizarre Miracle, by Emir Kusturica.

    A comedy? A tragedy? A romance? A war film? A fantasy? Kusturica manages to combine all these elements without losing the plot, at least by his standards. The madness and sadness of his Balkan films seem to perfectly mirror the region's history. Yet, helped out by his trademark bouncing soundtrack, he always manages to look on the bright side of life.

    PS Anybody want to explain what the donkey symbolises??!

      • Misco from Kelso
      • Posted 27 Mar 2008 13:31

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