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Emir Kusturica is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Sound Serbe born on 24 november 1954 at Sarajevo (Bosnie)
Emir Kusturica (Serbian: Емир Кустурица, born 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo) is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He has twice won the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence has been in Drvengrad, a town built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the film. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011.
Emir was something of a delinquent while growing up in Sarajevo, according to his own account. Through his father's friendship with the well-known director Hajrudin "Šiba" Krvavac, 17-year-old Emir got a small part in Krvavac's 1972 Walter Defends Sarajevo, a partisan film funded by the Yugoslavian government. After graduating from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 1978, Kusturica began directing made-for-TV television shorts in Yugoslavia. He made his feature film debut in 1981 with Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, which won the prestigious Silver Lion for Best First Work at that year's Venice Film Festival. From 1981 to 1988, he was a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo (Akademija Scenskih Umjetnosti) and art director of Open Stage Obala (Otvorena scena Obala).
His second feature film, When Father Was Away on Business (1985), earned a ''Palme d'Or at Cannes and five Yugoslav movie awards, as well as a nomination for an American Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Kusturica wrote the screenplays for both Do You Remember Dolly Bell? and When Father Was Away on Business in collaboration with Abdulah Sidran. In 1989 Kusturica earned more accolades for Time of the Gypsies'', a film about Romani culture and the exploitation of their youth. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Emir Kusturica
Birth name Emir Kusturica
Nationality Serbie
Birth 24 november 1954 (69 years) at Sarajevo (Bosnie)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Nationality Serbie
Birth 24 november 1954 (69 years) at Sarajevo (Bosnie)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence has been in Drvengrad, a town built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the film. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011.
Biography
Born to Murat Kusturica, a journalist employed at the Sarajevo's Secretariat of Information, and Senka Numankadić, a court secretary, Emir grew up as the only child of a secular family in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, then a constituent republic within Yugoslavia.Emir was something of a delinquent while growing up in Sarajevo, according to his own account. Through his father's friendship with the well-known director Hajrudin "Šiba" Krvavac, 17-year-old Emir got a small part in Krvavac's 1972 Walter Defends Sarajevo, a partisan film funded by the Yugoslavian government. After graduating from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 1978, Kusturica began directing made-for-TV television shorts in Yugoslavia. He made his feature film debut in 1981 with Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, which won the prestigious Silver Lion for Best First Work at that year's Venice Film Festival. From 1981 to 1988, he was a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo (Akademija Scenskih Umjetnosti) and art director of Open Stage Obala (Otvorena scena Obala).
His second feature film, When Father Was Away on Business (1985), earned a ''Palme d'Or at Cannes and five Yugoslav movie awards, as well as a nomination for an American Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Kusturica wrote the screenplays for both Do You Remember Dolly Bell? and When Father Was Away on Business in collaboration with Abdulah Sidran. In 1989 Kusturica earned more accolades for Time of the Gypsies'', a film about Romani culture and the exploitation of their youth. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Filmography of Emir Kusturica (26 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Balkan Line | Actor | Taxi driver |
| 2016 | On the Milky Road | Actor, Director, Writer | Kosta |
| 2014 | Words with Gods | Actor, Director, Writer | Monk (ep. "Our Life") |
| 2013 | The Scapegoat | Actor | Stojil |
| 2012 | 7 Days in Havana | Actor | Actor (segment "Jam Session") |
| 2011 | Nicostratos the Pelican | Actor | Démosthène |
| 2011 | Mozzarella Stories | Executive Producer | |
| 2009 | Farewell | Actor | Sergei Grigoriev |
| 2008 | Maradona by Kusturica | Actor, Director, Writer | Self |
| 2007 | Promise Me This | Director, Writer, Producer | |
| 2006 | Gucha! | Producer | |
| 2006 | Secret Journey | Actor | Harold |
| 2005 | All the Invisible Children | Director, Executive Producer | |
| 2004 | Life Is a Miracle | Director, Writer, Producer, Sound | |
| 2003 | The Good Thief | Actor | Vladimir |
| 2003 | Strawberry in the Supermarket | Actor, Executive Producer | General |
| 2001 | Super 8 Stories | Actor, Director, Executive producer | Self |
| 2000 | The Widow of Saint-Pierre | Actor | Joseph Auguste Néel |
| 1998 | Black Cat, White Cat | Director, Writer | |
| 1995 | Underground | Actor, Director, Writer | Švercer oružja |
| 1993 | Arizona Dream | Actor, Director, Story | |
| 1988 | Time of the Gypsies | Director, Writer | |
| 1985 | When Father Was Away on Business | Director, Scriptwriter | |
| 1981 | Do You Remember Dolly Bell? | Director, Writer | |
| 1979 | Buffet Titanic | Director, Writer | |
| 1972 | Walter Defends Sarajevo | Actor | Omladinac |