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Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica's biography

Emir Kusturica is 68 years old actor born at Sarajevo. Emir was born on Wednesday 24th of November 1954. Emir is often nicknamed as Kusta. According to year of birth 1954 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 24th of November means he is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.

He is white serbian. He is citizen of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is eastern orthodox. Emir´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as film producer, film director, screenwriter, musician, guitarist, composer, prosaist, manufacturer. Emir is recently known as spy.

Emir Kusturica's family

Emir Kusturica's ex spouse

Maja Kusturica

Emir Kusturica and Maja Kusturica have been together. She is known as manufacturer.

Emir has 1 son.

Emir Kusturica's son: Stribor Kusturica

Emir Kusturica's son's name is Stribor Kusturica. He is known as actor. His son was born in 1979 in Sarajevo.

Emir Kusturica's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Druga Gimnazija, Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

Emir Kusturica's career

His main focus is to be actor. Emir is famous thanks to Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream.,Underground. You could see him also in Underground, When Father Was Away on Business, Life Is a Miracle and many more. Emir is also a member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska. Maybe you are curious what instrument does he play ? He plays bass guitar.

Awards and competitions

Emir Kusturica's Awards

  • Emir received award for Palme d'Or for work Underground in 1995
  • He received award for Palme d'Or for work When Father Was Away on Business in 1985
  • Emir received award for César Award for Best Film from the European Union for work Life Is a Miracle in 2005
  • Emir received award for Cannes Best Director Award for work Time of the Gypsies in 1989

Emir Kusturica's Nominations

  • He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Documentary for work Super 8 Stories in 2001

Emir Kusturica's quotes

  • Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.
  • I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, 10 in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. Cities are humiliating places to live, particularly in this part of the world.
  • In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don't have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie.
  • OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.
  • Everything must be sold! Everything must be for sale! Everyone must buy! Everyone must have a Jeep!
  • I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
  • My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?
  • Milosevic's fundamental mistake was that he thought there were 250 million Serbs, and that he didn't have a couple of nuclear bombs in his pocket.
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Emir Kusturica's height, body shape

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