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FILM DIRECTOR

Emir Kusturica

1954 - Today

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Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица, pronounced [ě.mir ˈku.stu.ri.tsa]; born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s. He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d'Or twice (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emir Kusturica has received more than 1,642,878 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Emir Kusturica is the 49th most popular film director (up from 50th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Film Director.

Emir Kusturica is most famous for his film Underground which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Emir Kusturica ranks 49 out of 2,041. Before him are Billy Wilder, Vittorio De Sica, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yasujirō Ozu, Roberto Rossellini, and Isao Takahata. After him are Alan Parker, Takeshi Kitano, Oliver Stone, Michael Haneke, Tony Scott, and Luc Besson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Emir Kusturica ranks 15. Before him are Alexander Lukashenko, Viktor Yushchenko, Halimah Yacob, James Cameron, Sócrates, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. After him are Jean-Claude Juncker, Mario Kempes, Fernando Santos, Kazuo Ishiguro, Oprah Winfrey, and Dieter Bohlen.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emir Kusturica ranks 8 out of 375. Before him are Ivo Andrić (1892), Ratko Mladić (1942), Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (1505), Alija Izetbegović (1925), Ante Pavelić (1889), and Goran Bregović (1950). After him are Valerius Severus (300), Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), Slobodan Praljak (1945), Vladimir Prelog (1906), and Zoran Đinđić (1952).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among film directors born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emir Kusturica ranks 1. After him are Jasmila Žbanić (1974), Danis Tanović (1969), and Nina Kusturica (1975).

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Filmography

Black Cat, White Cat
Director
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.
Jun 1o 19987.7 / 10
Arizona Dream
Director
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.
Jan 6o 19937.177 / 10
Underground
Director
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
May 13o 19957.7 / 10