Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in townbuilding. He has twice won the Palme dOr at Cannes , as well as being named Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Kusturica was born in Sarajevo, the son of Murat Kusturica, a journalist employed at the Sarajevos Secretariat of Information, and Senka Numankadi, a court secretary, Emir grew up as the only child of a secular Bosniak Muslim family in Sarajevo, the capital of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, a constituent republic within FPR Yugoslavia.

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