Emir Kusturica

I Will Revenge This World With Love - S. Paradjanov

The author of the film decides to leave the country where she lives, in connection with the outbreak of the dramatic events, and return home to Armenia in search of a worthy example and solutions on how to live on. Paradjanov's house becomes a place of inspiration and a point of no return to toxic reality.

Release Date:2024-08-28

Character:Himself

Dule Savić and the Silence in London

The end of the match was being played when Dusan Savic ran onto the ball and sent it into Arsenal's goal with his left foot. For the silence at "Highbury" that the English had never recorded before. Over 40,000 people who came to the "Highbury" stadium had the opportunity to see the fearless Red Star and saw her off with well-deserved applause. The generation that took a huge step towards the first final of a European competition was led by coach Branko Stankovic, the famous "Ambassador".

Release Date:2023-12-06

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom

The history, culture and tradition of Serbs living West of the Drina river, from the times of medieval Bosnia to the 20th century and the formation of Republika Srpska, an internationally recognized entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Release Date:2022-10-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Scenes from the Life of BH Film

The history of Bosnian cinematography over 75 years of existence.

Release Date:2022-05-14

Character:Himself

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

Release Date:2020-12-10

Character:Himself

El Pepe: A Supreme Life

A documentary on the life of Uruguayan politician and former guerrilla fighter José Mujica.

Release Date:2019-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:43

Balkan Line

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.

Release Date:2019-03-21

Character:Taxi driver

Vote Count:530

Untold Stories of Eastern Europe

Release Date:2018-11-22

Episode Count:5

CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

Release Date:2018-09-16

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

To Make a Comedy Is No Fun

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica, István Szabó and others.

Release Date:2016-10-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

On the Milky Road

Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.

Release Date:2016-02-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Kosta

Vote Count:100

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments relating to the award ceremony which closes the Cannes Film Festival. This film brings to light moving and personal stories, as surprising as they are varied, which all contribute to further enhancing the legend of the Palme d’Or.

Release Date:2015-05-20

Character:Self

Vote Count:6

Words with Gods

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.

Release Date:2014-11-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Monk (ep. "Our Life")

Vote Count:8

The Ice Forest

In the harsh snowy landscape of the Italian Alps, a young technician arrives to repair an electric power plant of a village plagued by blackouts. There, he encounters a strange disappearance.

Release Date:2014-10-23

Character:Secondo

Vote Count:28

The Scapegoat

There is something strange - some would even say abnormal - about the Malaussène family. But if you take a closer look, no one could be happier than this cheerfully chaotic family, even though their mother is usually off on one romantic adventure or another. Life is never a bore for Benjamin Malaussène, professional scapegoat and the older brother responsible for this horde of kids. But when incidents happen wherever he goes, police and colleagues begin to eye him suspiciously. It soon becomes a matter of life and death to find out what is going on and who is so interested in ruining his life. Written by Pathe International

Release Date:2013-10-16

Character:Stojil

Vote Count:120

Who Is This Kusturica?

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...

Release Date:2013-08-23

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

Balkan Spirit

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".

Release Date:2013-04-08

Character:Self - Director

Vote Count:5

The Whirl

Three childhood friends from Belgrade, Serbia, whose destinies change as they become adults during the wartime 1990s.

Release Date:2012-11-10

Character:Bogdanov otac

Vote Count:5

Walter

In 1945 the forgotten Serbian World War II Hero Walter got killed while defending the occupied city of Sarajevo. In 1972 the actor Velimir Bata Zivojinovic changed the history of China portraying Walter in a Yugoslav partisan movie. More than a billion people saw that film until today. Myth. Legend.

Release Date:2012-11-04

Character:Himself

Vote Count:5

7 Days in Havana

A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.

Release Date:2012-04-05

Character:Actor (segment "Jam Session")

Vote Count:108

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy

A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-father, a friend, a professor... This film is an unexpected meeting with one of the most fascinating European film directors: Emir Kusturica. This is a journey to memory and forgetfulness. Beyond success, money, dependencies and pride. A deeper look into the world of Kusturica and his Wooden city at Mokra Gora. A tale about the won battles, as well as the lost ones. About the everlasting curiosity in filmmaking.

Release Date:2012-03-01

Character:Himself

Vote Count:2

Mozzarella Stories

Release Date:2011-08-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:18

Nicostratos the Pelican

After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and revive him back to life ...

Release Date:2011-06-29

Character:Démosthène

Vote Count:49

Farewell

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.

Release Date:2009-09-23

Character:Sergei Grigoriev

Vote Count:130

Maradona by Kusturica

A documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest modern player.

Release Date:2008-05-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:135

Le Temps des Gitans Punk Opera

Release Date:2007-06-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Promise Me This

An old man named Zivojin Markovic, living in a remote village prays for his grandson Cane to go to the city, sell his cow and bring back a wife. In the city he is supposed to meet up with his grandfather's stepbrother, but this man is dead. Instead, he meets this man's two grandsons, two good-natured brothers who are nevertheless small-time criminals and experts in demolition. Cane soon clicks with these men, and also falls in love with a schoolgirl (Jasna), who he wants to marry as part of his testament with his grandfather. He gets involved in this girl's family affairs, rescuing both her and her mother from prostitution and gangsters headed by a man called Bajo, and the new group of people return to the small village in time to celebrate Zivojin's wedding to his neighbor, despite the gangsters' best efforts to stop the celebration, which results in a double wedding.

Release Date:2007-05-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:79

Gucha!

Juliet, a white girl, falls in love with a dark-skinned romeo, a divine trumpet player from the Roma orchestra. But her father Satchmo doesn't accept Romeo. Romeo needs to fight for Juliet at the legendary Festival of the trumpeters in Gucha.

Release Date:2006-11-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:8

Secret Journey

After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.

Release Date:2006-10-20

Character:Harold

Vote Count:6

Le court des grands

A program of short films from some of the cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears. - George Lucas "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966) - Ridley Scott "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965) - Robert Zemeckis "The Lift" (1972) - Tony Scott "One of the Missing" (1969) - Emir Kusturica "Guernica" (1978) - Luc Besson "L'avant dernier" (1981) - Lars von Trier "Nocturne" (1980) - Terry Gilliam "Storytime" (1968) - Paul Verhoeven "A Lizzard Too Much" (1960) - Roman Polanski "Le gros et le maigre" (1960) - Jane Campion "Peel" (1982) - Stephen Frears "The Burning" (1967)

Release Date:2005-11-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

All the Invisible Children

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

Release Date:2005-09-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:66

Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra - Live is a Miracle in Buenos Aires

It is a live record of a show of this band in one of their first presentations in Argentina. All done with the ease and artistic self-confidence that the Serbian film director has. With that gypsy music of the Balkans plus some rock, they capture here with a lot of energy and humor an almost circus show. Recorded March 3, 2005 at the Luna Park Stadium in Buenos Aires.

Release Date:2005-03-03

Character:Himself

Vote Count:1

TropiAbbas

An Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema.

Release Date:2005-01-01

Department:Sound

Job:Music

Life Is a Miracle

Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.

Release Date:2004-05-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:177

Chaplin Today: 'The Circus'

This documentary is featured on the Warner Bros. Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Circus," released in 2004.

Release Date:2003-05-25

Character:Self

Vote Count:9

The Good Thief

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Release Date:2003-04-02

Character:Vladimir

Vote Count:130

Strawberry in the Supermarket

An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.

Release Date:2003-02-06

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:General

Vote Count:51

Super 8 Stories

A documentary about the band "No Smoking Orchestra".

Release Date:2001-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Vote Count:14

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.

Release Date:2000-04-19

Character:Joseph Auguste Néel

Vote Count:55

Emir Kusturica

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

Release Date:2000-03-12

Character:Himself

Vivement dimanche

Release Date:1998-09-20

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:7

Black Cat, White Cat

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

Release Date:1998-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:744

Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground

While his country Yugoslavia gradually turns into a battlefield, director Emir Kusturica guides his film crew to overcome this reality. A new world, which carries the signs of the old, comes to life.

Release Date:1996-11-30

Character:Himself

Vote Count:2

Once Upon a Time There Was a Country

This movie reflects the history of Yugoslavia since the beginning of WWII (and similar to all ex-communist countries) to the last horrible events in Balcanian countries. Behind the comedy is hidden the pain of whole generations, which have suffered WWII, The Cold War, the war in Yugoslavia, the communism, the treachery of their own leadership, the fall. The film shows us the reality, as seen by those who feel unlimited love for their country and culture. Marko and Blacky represent the true leaders of the country, the soul of the nation and not without controversies. Once Upon A Time There Was A Country is an extended TV version of Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground.

Release Date:1996-11-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Švercer oružja

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:7

Underground

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Release Date:1995-05-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Švercer oružja

Vote Count:690

Arizona Dream

An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.

Release Date:1993-01-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:694

Time of the Gypsies

In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves. Long version screened by the Sarajevo television in 5 one-hour episodes.

Release Date:1990-01-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Time of the Gypsies

In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Release Date:1988-12-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:386

The Worker's Life

An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike.

Release Date:1987-06-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Magpie Strategy

Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.

Release Date:1987-06-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

When Father Was Away on Business

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 situation and wait for his release from prison.

Release Date:1985-01-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:126

The Guldbagge Awards

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

Release Date:1981-10-30

Character:Self - Best Foreign Language Film winner

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

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.

Release Date:1981-04-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:74

Buffet Titanic

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.

Release Date:1979-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

Guernica

The initiation of a young Jewish child into Guernica's world.

Release Date:1978-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

The Brides Are Coming

Jelena, a woman of character, rules an inn in an isolated place in the countryside. She lives with her two sons: Martin and Jakov. Martin has been married to Kata for 5 years, but never succeeded in having a child. Jakov sleeps with his mother in postures suggesting incest, but he is in love with Kata. Each night he hears her cries, the sexual acts with her husband inevitably finish with violence. One day, Jakov can't stand anymore, he leaves, and Kata is found dead the next morning. Two characters arrive then : an old man, who turns to be the father of Martin ; he settles and declares being returned to die here. And a girl, that Martin will keep as his new wife.

Release Date:1978-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Walter Defends Sarajevo

Sarajevo 1944. The German armies desperately need fuel in the retreat. Walter, the enigmatic and charismatic leader of the resistance movement, can endanger their supplies. The Germans are taking a cunning plan to remove that obstacle.

Release Date:1972-04-12

Character:Omladinac

Vote Count:28