Emir Kusturica
Highest Rated: 100% When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Lowest Rated: 40% 7 Days in Havana (2012)
Birthday: Nov 24, 1954
Birthplace: Sarajevo, Bosnia
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative filmmakers of his generation, Emir Kusturica twice won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or before the age of 40, and, film for film, it is difficult to think of a more consistently lauded artist than this Bosnian-born director. Possessing the persona of a rock star (he once played bass in the agit-rock band No Smoking and still makes guest appearances with them), he is the antithesis of the Hollywood director, viewing the world as a naif or a dreamer and only helming projects that move him strongly. Though the commerce of movies remains foreign to Kusturica, the opportunity to make a visual statement still drives his work. No fan of the close-up, he always tries to connect one person with what is going on in the midground and background (much like John Frankenheimer), and he has successfully worked with non-actors in the tradition of Italian neo-realism (e.g., Roberto Rossellini). As a result of his unpopular stand regarding the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, however, he finds himself scorned in his own land, literally a director without a country.
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Emir Kusturica
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | "I will revenge this world with love" S.Paradjanov | Self | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
100% |
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El Pepe: A Supreme Life (El Pepe, Una Vida Suprema) | Director | - | 2018 |
50% |
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On the Milky Road |
Kosta (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Pepe: A Supreme Life | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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La foresta di ghiaccio | Secondo (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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The Scapegoat | Stojil (Character) | - | 2013 |
40% |
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7 Days in Havana | Actor (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Nicostratos, The Pelican | Démosthène (Character) | - | 2011 |
86% |
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Farewell | Sergei Gregoriev (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Maradona by Kusturica |
Self, Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Promise Me This |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Secret Journey | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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All the Invisible Children | Director | - | 2005 |
60% |
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Life Is a Miracle |
Director, Producer, Writer |
- | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strawberries in the Supermarket |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 2003 |
77% |
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The Good Thief | Vladimir (Character) | $3.5M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Super 8 Stories |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2001 |
91% |
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre | Neel Auguste (Character) | $3.2M | 2000 |
83% |
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Crna macka, beli macor |
Director, Writer |
$348.7K | 1998 |
86% |
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Underground | Director | $154.0K | 1995 |
87% |
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Arizona Dream |
Director, Writer |
- | 1992 |
100% |
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Time of the Gypsies | Director | $183.3K | 1989 |
100% |
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When Father Was Away on Business |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell? |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1981 |