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Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s.
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entertainment · Serbian film director, writer, and musician (born 1954) · actor · film producer · film director · screenwriter · musician · guitarist · composer · prose writer · manufacturer · spy · also Emir Kusturica, Emir Nemanja Kusturica, Nemanja Kusturica, Kusturica
Born 24 November 1954 · Q94882
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2026· 2 entries
“The film happened to be placed in Bosnia, because it was a true event, told me by a Serbian man living in Toulouse. If it had happened in Rwanda or Korea I would have gone there to make the movie.”
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2024· 2 entries
eng.belta: Lukashenko sends birthday greetings to Emir Kusturica
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The Engineer of Easy Walks to be shot in Sochi
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2022· 2 entries
Jazz: Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra
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Kusturica published a book titled Vidiš li da ne vidim
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2020· 1 entry
Cineuropa: Emir Kusturica • Founder and director, Kustendorf Film & Music Festival
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2019· 2 entries
Won Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class presented by President of the Czech Republic (2019).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Voronezh State University (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Order of St. Sava (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Filmmaker: Emir Kusturica
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the Star of Italy (2017).
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2016· 6 entries
Yahoo: Emir Kusturica says 'Na Mlijecnom Putu' his last competition film
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Deadline.com: ‘On The Milky Road’: Emir Kusturica Woos Monica Bellucci, With Pumpkins – Venice
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Awarded Order of Friendship (2016).
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Won Golden Lion (2016).
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The Guardian: Emir Kusturica denies saying Cannes rejected him over Putin
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The Guardian: Emir Kusturica: Cannes rejected my film because I support Putin
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2015· 2 entries
Armenpress: Emir Kusturica to visit Armenian Genocide Memorial
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Variety: Cannes: Wild Bunch Reteams With Emir Kusturica for ‘On the Milky Road’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Svetozar Ćorović Award (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
The book was published in Bulgaria as Cмъpттa e нeпoтвъpдeн cлуx, in Greece as Κι εγώ πού είμαι σ' αυτή την ιστορία;, in Romania as Unde sunt eu în toată povestea asta, and in Hungary as Hogy jövök én a képbe
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
The Guardian: Emir Kusturica wants Javier Bardem for Pancho Villa biopic
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Kusturica signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski following his arrest in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival, which the petition argued wou
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2008· 2 entries
The Guardian: Peter Bradshaw on Emir Kusturica's docu-tribute to Diego Maradona
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The Guardian: Diego Maradona and Emir Kusturica: a meeting of egos
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2007).
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Also supported the nationalist Serbian campaign Solidarity - Kosovo is Serbia, a campaign against the independence of Kosovo
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Film from the European Union for Life Is a Miracle (2005).
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Was baptised into the Serbian Orthodox Church as Nemanja Kusturica (Немања Кустурица) at the Savina monastery near Herceg Novi, Montenegro
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Oh, Danube, ma Danube!”.
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The Prix de l'Education nationale (National Education Prize) honored Emir Kusturica and his film Život je čudo (Life is a Miracle)
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2002· 4 entries
From Kusturica's collaborator Marc di Domenico while the support of the Paris Opera director Gerard Mortier got the project rolling
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Kusturica became a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia
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And eight years later he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in France
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Kusturica appeared as an electric guitar player/security specialist in The Good Thief, directed by Neil Jordan
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2001· 1 entry
Kusturica directed Super 8 Stories, a documentary road and concert movie about The No Smoking Orchestra, of which he is a band member
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1999· 1 entry
The No Smoking Orchestra recorded a new album, Unza Unza Time, produced by the Universal record company, as well as a music video, directed by Emir Kusturica
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1998· 4 entries
Won Golden Lion (1998).
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Earned Silver Lion (1998).
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Won the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion for Best Direction for Black Cat, White Cat, a farcical comedy set in a Gypsy (Romani) settlement on the banks of the Danube
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Venice Film Festival for the film Black Cat, White Cat
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Palme d'Or for Underground (1995).
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1994· 5 entries
“My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. Okay, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.”
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“In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don't have experience of the west, they even believe that a western pile of shit is actually pie.”
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“There are always motherfuckers queuing up to pull you down to earth. But we must fly occasionally, we all have to feel that joy or we are nothing.”
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“That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.”
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“If I was English I would be very much against Putin. If I was American I would even fight with him, but if I was Russian I would vote for him.”
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1993· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear (1993).
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His father's mother was "strongly tied to Muslim rites" while his father "did not belong to any cult, he was not religious at all"
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award (1989).
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Was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival
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Earned more accolades for Time of the Gypsies, a film about Romani culture and the exploitation of their youth
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1988· 1 entry
Once the filming of Time of the Gypsies began
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes (1985).
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Awarded Palme d'Or for When Father Was Away on Business (1985).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded FIPRESCI Prize at Festival of Venice (1981).
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1978· 1 entry
Kusturica graduated from the film school (FAMU) at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, which is why he is sometimes considered a part of the Prague film school, an informal group of Yugoslav film directors who stud
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-11-24.
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