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11 October 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Emir Kusturica builds homage to Ivo Andric novel, triggering controversy in Visegrad, scene of atrocities in Bosnian war

Turning his back on the 19th-century Spanish cafe, Emir Kusturica loped into the street where a Byzantine tower is to be built, over the way from the Ottoman houses with their screened balconies. A breeze ruffled the long, tangled strands of his uncombed hair.

"If you had said there could be a multiplex in Visegrad," he said, waving a hand towards the half-built cinema where workmen were coming and going, "they would have said you were fucking crazy."

Confused? A lot of people who come here will be.

In one of the most beautiful spots in the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia's most celebrated film director was showing the Guardian around his most ambitious and controversial project to date – a town within a town that will echo in wood and stone the region's greatest work of fiction. »

- John Hooper

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