Zivot je cudo (2004)

Director:

Emir Kusturica

Writers:

Ranko Bozic (scenario and dialogue) &
Emir Kusturica (scenario and dialogue)

Release Date:

14 May 2004 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Music | Drama | War

Plot:

What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..

Plot Keywords:

Civil War | Romeo And Juliet | Train | Balkan | Slapstick

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Slavko Stimac	...	Luka
Natasa Solak	...	Sabaha
Vesna Trivalic	...	Jadranka
Vuk Kostic	...	Milos
Aleksandar Bercek	...	Veljo
Stribor Kusturica	...	Captain Aleksic
Nikola Kojo	...	Filipovic
Mirjana Karanovic	...	Nada
Branislav Lalevic	...	President
Davor Janjic	...	Tomo
Adnan Omerovic	...	Eso
Obrad Djurovic	...	Vujan
Dr. Nele Karajlic	...	Cymbal Player (as Dr. Nelle Karajlic)
Dana Todorovic	...	SF TV Reporter (as Danica Todorovic)
Vanessa Glodjo	...	Nurse 1 (as Vanesa Glodjo)

Also Known As:

Life Is a Miracle (International: English title) (USA) (literal English title)
Hungry Heart (International: English title)
Kad je zivot bio cudo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Serbo-Croatian title) (working title)
La vie est un miracle! (France)
La vita è un miracolo (Italy)

Runtime:

France:155 min | Germany:154 min | Argentina:155 min

Country:

Serbia and Montenegro | France | Italy

Language:

Serbian | English | German | Hungarian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Germany:12 | Hungary:16 | Sweden:11 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:16 | Ireland:15A | Netherlands:12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Cacak, Serbia

Company:

Les Films Alain Sarde

Trivia:

When the tunnel is blasted, the bazooka operator sings a medley of songs by The Doors, specially "Touch Me" and "The End".

Goofs:

Continuity: The movie was shot along a narrow gauge railway but Mayor Radovan arrives to the village on a normal gauge railcar. (00:07:38-00:09:33)

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Mi nismo andjeli 2 (2005)

It's a great movie

It's a best movie I have seen during the last few years. After the film I had feeling that Hollywood is just a factory producing cheep colored jewelry. The film is a drama with happy end. In this movie you can find real feelings, real values. There is described the philosophy of war, how stupid and silly it can be. Kusturica's humor is sharp and true. The most funny for me in this film was a place with international "peacekeeping" organizations , there "role" in solving of conflicts, "saving" people. In fact the author shows how useless and inadequate are those organizations in such cases. Kusturica is a great as usual and the soundtrack like in all his films too.