Director
Emir Kusturica
Born 1954 · Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Emir Nemanja Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He is a two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being a Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a village in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for his film Life Is a Miracle.
Directed
Black Cat, White Cat
Director · 1998
Underground
Director · 1995
Arizona Dream
Director · 1993
Time of the Gypsies
Director · 1988
Life Is a Miracle
Director · 2004
When Father Was Away on Business
Director · 1985
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Director · 1981
Maradona by Kusturica
Director · 2008
On the Milky Road
Director · 2016
All the Invisible Children
Director · 2006
Promise Me This
Director · 2007
El Pepe: A Supreme Life
Director · 2019
Once Upon a Time There Was a Country
Director · 1996
Le Temps des Gitans Punk Opera
Director · 2007
Super 8 Stories
Director · 2001
Le court des grands
Director · 2005
Guernica
Director · 1978
Buffet Titanic
Director · 1979
Acting
Underground
Dealer · 1995
Balkan Line
Taxi driver · 2019
Farewell
Sergei Grigoriev · 2009
Maradona by Kusturica
Self · 2008
On the Milky Road
Kosta · 2016
The Good Thief
Vladimir · 2003
El Pepe: A Supreme Life
Self · 2019
The Scapegoat
Stojil · 2013
Strawberry in the Supermarket
General · 2003
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Joseph Auguste Néel · 2000
Nicostratos the Pelican
Démosthène · 2011
7 Days in Havana
Actor (segment "Jam Session") · 2012
Walter Defends Sarajevo
Omladinac · 1972
Once Upon a Time There Was a Country
Švercer oružja · 1996
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
Self · 2025
How I Waited for the Sun
Himself · 2025
The Whirl
Bogdanov otac · 2012
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
Himself · 2012
Super 8 Stories
Self · 2001
Chaplin Today: The Circus
Self · 2003
Walter
Himself · 2012
Balkan Spirit
Self - Director · 2013
The Ice Forest
Secondo · 2014
Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra - Live is a Miracle in Buenos Aires
Himself · 2005
Writing
Black Cat, White Cat
Writer · 1998
Underground
Screenplay · 1995
Arizona Dream
Story · 1993
Time of the Gypsies
Writer · 1988
Life Is a Miracle
Writer · 2004
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
Writer · 1981
Maradona by Kusturica
Writer · 2008
On the Milky Road
Writer · 2016
Promise Me This
Writer · 2007
Once Upon a Time There Was a Country
Writer · 1996
The Magpie Strategy
Writer · 1987
Guernica
Writer · 1978