Acting credits
42
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Emir Kusturica
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 56Series: 6Crew credits: 28
TMDB ID: 15254
IMDb ID: nm0001437
Known for: Directing
Born: November 24, 1954
Age: 71
Place of birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1972 - 2025
Years active: 54
Average TMDB rating: 6.72
Wikidata: Q94882
Also known as
Емир Кустуриця • Емір Кустуріца • Эмир Кустурица • ემირ კუსტურიცა • 에밀 쿠스트리차 • 에미르 쿠스트리차
Other jobs
Director (19)Writer (4)Producer (2)Executive Producer (1)Music (1)Thanks (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Emir Kusturica.
Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp
as Self
2025 Movie
How I Waited for the Sun
as Himself
2025 Movie
"I Will Revenge This World With Love" - S. Paradjanov
as Himself
2024 Movie
Dule Savić and the Silence in London
as Himself
2023 Movie
Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom
as Self
2022 Movie
Scenes from the Life of BH Film
as Self
2022 Movie
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
as Self
2020 Movie
El Pepe: A Supreme Life
as Self
2019 Movie
Balkan Line
as Taxi driver
2019 Movie
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
as Self
2018 Movie
Local Heroes - World Talents
as Himself
2018 Movie
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
as Self
2016 Movie
On the Milky Road
as Kosta
2016 Movie
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
as Self
2015 Movie
Words with Gods
as Monk (ep. "Our Life")
2014 Movie
The Ice Forest
as Secondo
2014 Movie
The Scapegoat
as Stojil
2013 Movie
Who Is This Kusturica?
as Himself
2013 Movie
Balkan Spirit
as Self - Director
2013 Movie
The Whirl
as Bogdanov otac
2012 Movie
Walter
as Himself
2012 Movie
7 Days in Havana
as Actor (segment "Jam Session")
2012 Movie
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy
as Himself
2012 Movie
Mozzarella Stories
Executive Producer
2011 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Emir Kusturica.
Untold Stories of Eastern Europe
5 eps
2018 Series
Vivement dimanche
as Self • 3 eps
1998 Series
Once Upon a Time There Was a Country
as Švercer oružja • 6 eps
1996 Series
Time of the Gypsies
Director • 5 eps
1990 Series
The Guldbagge Awards
as Self - Best Foreign Language Film winner • 1 eps
1981 Series
The South Bank Show
1 eps
1978 Series