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A grandson gives his grandfather a vow to go to the city to sell a cow and bring back a wife.
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Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
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A family is deeply affected by father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of Tito-Stalin split.
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A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
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In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
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A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. They hire him to hide a young ... See full summary »
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Emir Kusturica
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A story that stretches across war, blossoming love and living as a recluse.
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A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
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Emir Kusturica
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Jerry Lewis,
Faye Dunaway
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A documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest modern player.
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Fidel Castro,
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The main character Luka is a somewhat eccentric engineer who builds a tunnel between the Balkans and the rest of the world. Luka's wife is Jadranka - the singer who suffers from a sincere ... See full summary »
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Slavko Stimac,
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A documentary about the band "No smoking orchestra"
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Emir Kusturica
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Aleksandar Balaban,
Nenad Gajin Coce,
Goran Markovski Glava
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Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic,
Mirjana Jokovic,
Slavko Stimac
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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..
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The BBFC originally requested cuts to a scene where a cat attacks a live pigeon. The cut was waived before release after director
Emir Kusturica provided the censors with evidence that the scene was faked and the bird was not hurt.
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Goofs
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)
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Quotes
Luka:
You are starting to burrow into my heart.
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Connections
Spoofed in
We Are Not Angels 2 (2005)
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Release Date:
14 May 2004 (France)
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Also Known As:
Life Is a Miracle
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Box Office
Budget:
$8,000,000
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Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$5,363,574
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Aspect Ratio:
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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.