Emir KusturicaFilmography

Born:: November 24, 1954 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: With an impressive string of internationally acclaimed features, Yugoslavian filmmaker Emir Kusturica became one of the most creative directors in cinema during the 1980s and '90s. Born in Sarajevo and educated at the distinguished FAMU Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, he began directing...Read More

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Farewell

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica

Synopsis: An espionage agent begins working against his own country for the good of the world in this drama based on a true story. Sergei Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica) is a Soviet intelligence operative who has become deeply disillusioned with life under Communism -- while he believes in the ideals the U.S.S.R Read More

2009
Promets-moi

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marija Petronijevic, Uros Milovanovic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Aleksandar Bercek, Kosanka Djekic

Synopsis: A young man attempts to fulfill the last wish of his dying grandfather in director Emil Kusturica's quirky romantic comedy Just outside of Belgrade, a man named Tsane (Uros Milovanovic) lives on a remote hilltop with his grandfather Deda (Aleksander Bercek) and Cvetka the family cow. Apart from Read More

2007
Gucha - Distant Trumpet

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Marko Markovic, Aleksandra Manasijevic, Mladen Nelevic, Slavoljub Pesic, Svetislav Pesic

2007
Maradona By Kusturica

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Diego Armando Maradona

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Emir Kusturica traces the remarkable story of soccer legend Diego Maradona in this documentary featuring music by composer Manu Chao. Maradona has a reputation as the people's champion, an athlete who rose from humble beginnings to achieve worldwide fame, and who has overcome Read More

2006
Secret Journey

Actors: Alessio Boni, Claudia Gerini, Donatella Finocchiaro, Emir Kusturica, Valeria Solarino

2006
All the Invisible Children

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Bila, Elysee Rounamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Ahmed Ouedraogo, Harouna Ouedraogo

Synopsis: Omnibus films attained renewed popularity during the 1990s and 2000s; this particular seven-episode film-a-sketch arrived during that period, and involved several top-tiered international filmmakers including John Woo, Spike Lee, Ridley Scott, Emir Kusturica and three others. Each helmer was asked Read More

2005
Zivot Je Cudo

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak, Vesna Trivalic, Vuk Kostic, Aleksandar Bercek

Synopsis: The tragedy of the war in Bosnia makes way for the humor and compassion of people living their lives under difficult circumstances in this comedy drama from filmmaker Emir Kusturica. In 1992, war is brewing in Bosnia, but the city fathers in the town of Golobuci are going ahead with their plans of Read More

2004
Emir Kusturica: A Tender Barbarian

Actors: Emir Kusturica

2004
The Good Thief

Actors: Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gérard Darmon

Synopsis: Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the Read More

4/2/03
Jagoda in the Supermarket

Crew: Producer

Actors: Branka Katic, Srdjan Todorovic, Dubravka Mijatovic, Danilo Lazovic, Goran Radakovic

Synopsis: Dusan Milic's hostage film Jagoda in the Supermarket stars Branka Katic in the title role. She is a 30-year-old cashier who, after seeing someone else steal the man she wanted to date, makes the mistake of refusing to sell an elderly woman some strawberries. The next day the woman's grandson Read More

2003
The Widow of Saint-Pierre

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Reynald Bouchard, Michel Duchaussoy, Christian Charmettant

Synopsis: Long-established director Emir Kusturica makes his acting debut in Patrice Leconte's 19th century tale of a loyal, strong-willed woman who follows her soldier husband to a desolate French territory off the coast of Newfoundland. Madame La (Juliette Binoche) lives in marital bliss on the island of Read More

2/23/01
Super 8 Stories

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Executive Producer

Actors: D. Nele Karajilic, Dejo Sparavalo

Synopsis: When Yugoslavian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica isn't busy directing films like Crna Macka, Beli Macor and Dom Za Vesanje, he plays guitar with the No Smoking Orchestra (aka Zabranjeno Pusenje), a ten-piece ensemble that blends the folk music styles of the Balkans with the anarchic energy of rock & Read More

2001
Black Cat, White Cat

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bajram Severdzan, Florijan Ajdini, Salija Ibraimova, Branka Katic, Srdjan Todorovic

Synopsis: Bosnian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica made this farce, set in a Gypsy settlement along the banks of the Danube, where three generations of characters burst forth in manic and frenetic displays of charm, confusion, and chaos. Garbage dump godfather Grga Pitic (Sabri Sulejman) and cement czar Zarije Read More

9/30/98
Underground

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Slavko Stimac

Synopsis: An unpredictable black comedy with an epic scope, Emir Kusturica's highly acclaimed Underground takes a look at the modern history of Yugoslavia through the often absurd misadventures of two friends over several decades. The film begins in Belgrade in 1941, establishing the friendship between the Read More

1995
Arizona Dream

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor, Vincent Gallo

Synopsis: Director Emir Kusturica and screenwriter David Atkins crafted this absurdist comedy in which Johnny Depp plays Axel Blackmer, who lives in New York State and is obsessed with fish. He tags fish and monitors their habits for a living, but his greatest curiosity is when and how they dream. Axel's Read More

1/6/93
Time of the Gypsies

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Hunsija Hasimovic, Sinolicka Trpkova

Synopsis: Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) is a Gypsy teenager with the ability to move objects with his mind. A criminal named Ahmed convinces him to leave his devoted grandmother (Ljubica Adzovic) and loving girlfriend, and to use his powers to make some money illegally. While becoming a man and learning the trade Read More

2/9/90
Strategija svrake

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Predrag Lakovic, Zvonko Lepetic, Radmila Zivkovic, Boro Stjepanovic, Branko Cvejic

Synopsis: If this is, as it seems, a typical Yugoslavian comedy, the grim events taking place there in the 1990s seem more comprehensible. Grandpa Buda seems like he is one who can take everything in stride, just as it comes to him. When Marshall Tito dies, he invites the neighborhood gypsies into his back Read More

1987
When Father Was Away on Business

Crew: Director

Actors: Moreno De Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Mira Furlan

Synopsis: The Yugoslavian When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na Sluzbenoh Putu) takes place in the early 1950s. The title is a euphemism: because of the strained relationship between Yugoslavia and the USSR, various private citizens have disappeared in the middle of the night, accompanied by the police. Read More

1985
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?

Crew: Director

Actors: Slavko Stimac, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mira Banjac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Pavle Vujisic

Synopsis: Filmed in Yugoslavia, Do You Remember Dolly Bell? is set in the Sarajevo of the mid-1960s. When the government begins relaxing its hold on individual rights, many citizens don't quite know how to handle their sudden freedom. The film concentrates on the effect an onslaught of Western culture Read More

1981