Emir Kusturica

Quick Facts

Full Name	Emir Kusturica
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Nov 24, 1954(1954-11-24)
Age	70
Birthplace	Sarajevo
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Horoscope	Scorpio

Emir Kusturica Biography

Emir Kusturica is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on November 24, 1954 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many-time Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival for When Father Was Away For Business as well as Underground.

Both Life and Nothing But director He and Life and Nothing But director Bertrand Tavernier both won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. both took home an award for the Best director award during the Cannes Film Festival.

Emir Kusturica (Serbian Cyrillic: Емир Кустурица ; born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He also has French citizenship. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. 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.

A lively youth, Kusturica was by his own admission a borderline delinquent while growing up in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Gorica. Through his father’s friendship with the well-known director Hajrudin “Šiba” Krvavac, Kusturica, aged seventeen, got a small part in Krvavac’s Walter Defends Sarajevo, a 1972 partisan film funded by the Yugoslav state.

He had two children with the names of Stribor as well as Dunja along with Maja Mandic.

Emir Kusturica Net Worth

Emir Kusturica is one of the richest Director from Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emir Kusturica 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His first film appearance was in a small role as an actor for the movie Walter Defends Sarajevo, which was financed from his government Yugoslavian government.

He first moved into Drvengrad the town, which was constructed specifically for the production Life is a Miracle, around the middle of 2000.

When his mother was on her deathbed he wanted to find out his ancestry and learnt that the origin of the Kusturica family stemmed from two Orthodox Christian branches. An ancestor of his, who helped build the Arslanagić bridge in the 18th century, hailed from Bileća and the Babić family. According to the studies of geographer Jevto Dedijer (1880–1918) in the Bileća region (1902): the Kusturica family lived in a čopor (grouped area, literally “pack”) in the village of Plana; they had eight houses next to the Kozjak family (four houses), northwest across a field from the Avdić family (23 houses). In Granica, there was a family surnamed Kusturica which had left Plana 80 years earlier.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Emir Kusturica height 6 ft 3 in Emir weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Emir Kusturica Dating?

According to our records, Emir Kusturica married to Maja Mandić Kusturica. As of December 1, 2023, Emir Kusturica’s is not dating anyone.

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Kusturica played bass on three track from the band’s third studio album Pozdrav iz zemlje Safari and composed one of the songs, and directed a video. Though never fully involved in the band’s day-to-day life, Kusturica left Zabranjeno Pušenje in 1988.

Facts & Trivia

Emir Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Emir Kusturica celebrates birthday on November 24 of every year.

Kusturica and his work have provoked controversy at home and abroad. Underground, scripted by Dušan Kovačević, was partly financed by state-owned Yugoslav television. It recounted the history of Yugoslavia from World War II until the conflicts during the 1990s. Bosnian and French critics claimed the film contained pro-Serb propaganda.