Emir Kusturica无疑是一位伟大的导演.他的对待电影的态度，对自己乐队的喜爱，对家乡不舍的感情，这个出生在萨拉热窝的男人无疑是前南的骄傲。
至今看过他三部电影，分别是Do You Remember Dolly Bell，<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/>Underground和Crna macka, beli macor（Black Cat, White Cat）。部部堪称经典~
今天说的是Undergroud。与他的乐队No Smoking暂且无关。
老库的每部电影都很好的诠释了老库那种塞尔维亚人对生活独特的热爱和对国家的怀恋。95年的Undergroud无疑把这种情感宣泄出来。影片的末尾甚至也看到了Tim Burton的一丝魔幻的影子，当那些在地下生活了20年的人们同时在一个慢慢被剥离开的小岛上载歌载舞时，也说不清对塞尔维亚这个民族是什么感情，悲哀中又带着几分喜悦
当电影中，20年来一直在地下室出生成长的儿子一轮圆月高兴的对父亲说“太阳出来了”，我实在是想笑却笑不出来，一直悲怜之情油然而生。是战争，一切都因为战争，导演对战争的控诉与愤恨隐隐透过萤幕折射出来。
“我们在这片土地上盖起了新的屋舍，它们有着红色的房顶以及向宾客敞开的大门。鹳鸟也在这里筑巢。我们感激养育我们的土地，感激温暖我们的太阳，感激这片令我们怀念起家乡绿地的田野。我们还会怀着或悲伤或喜悦的心情回忆我们的祖国吗？当我们向子孙讲述这个故事时，它会像所有故事那样开始：‘在很久很久以前，曾有一个国家……’” ————是啊，从前有一个国家，它名叫南斯拉夫~这个名字已经留在了我记忆深处，导演的把这种对前南的情感封锁在了自己心灵深处~充满欢声笑语的南斯拉夫，脱离战争时期的南斯拉夫。
一个伟大的导演和他故乡、人民间的故事，这个故事注定还将继续下去。
附：库斯图里卡简介及其语录（from imdb）
Date of Birth
<a href=http://www.imdb.com/OnThisDay?day=24&month=November>24 November <a href=http://www.imdb.com/BornInYear?1954>1954, <a href=http://www.imdb.com/BornWhere?Sarajevo,%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina>Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nickname
Kusta
Mini Biography
Born in 1954 in Sarajevo. Graduated film directing at the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague in 1978. During the studies, <a href=http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?award>awarded several times for his short movies including Guernica (1978) which took first prize at Student’s Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. After graduation, he directs several TV movies in hometown, Sarajevo. In collaboration with the screenwriter <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796710/>Abdulah Sidran in 1981. he made the successful feature <a href=http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?debut>debut Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell (1981) which won best first film Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival. Their subsequent work, human political drama <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089748/>Otac na sluzbenom putu (1985) unanimously won top prize at 1985. Cannes Film Festival as well as FIPRESCI prize and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Oscar. In 1989. he won Best Director <a href=http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?award>award at Cannes for <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097223/>Dom za vesanje (1988), movie about the life of gypsy family in Yugoslavia scripted by <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0586235/>Gordan Mihic. Was professor of film directing in USA. His first English language movie, <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106307/>Arizona Dream (1993) starring <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/>Johnny Depp, <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001471/>Jerry Lewis and <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001159/>Faye Dunaway and scripted by his USA student, <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040575/>David Atkins was <a href=http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?award>awarded Silver Bear at 1993 Berlin Film Festival.<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/>Underground (1995), bitter surrealistic comedy about Balkan, scripted by <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468169/>Dusan Kovacevic, took him second Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival in 1995.
IMDb Mini Biography By: <a href=http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?Aleksandar%20Novakovic%20([email protected])>Aleksandar Novakovic ([email protected])
Spouse
Maja Kusturica
(? – present) 2 children
Trivia
1986 -1988 played bass guitar in Zabranjeno Pusenje, a rock band from his hometown Sarajevo.
In 1993, he challenged Vojislav Seselj, leader of Serbia’s ultranationalist movement, to a duel. He suggested that it should be in the heart of Belgrade, at high noon (!), with any weapon Mr. Seselj chooses. Vojislav Seselj refused this offer saying that he didn’t want to be accused of a murder of an artist.
In 1995. Kusturica knocked down (during the FEST – Belgrade’s International Film Festival) Mr. <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0657033/>Nebojsa Pajkic leader of New Serbian Right movement. Symbolicaly enough, Mrs. Pajkic tried to protect her husband by hitting Kusturica with the small bag, a present from <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438734/>Radovan Karadzic, leader of Bosnian Serbs.
Acording to Swedish paper Dagens Nyheter 28 January, 2001, Emir Kusturica and Zabranjeno Pusenje recently had a gig in Moscow.
Since 1986 he plays bass guitar in Zabranjeno Pusenje (also known as The No Smoking Orchestra), a rock band from his hometown Sarajevo. In 1989 the band and its members moved to Belgrad. <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278069/>Super 8 Stories (2001) is a domcumentary about No Smoking.
Since 1986 <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001437/>Emir Kusturica has played the bass for the Yugoslav Gipsy -Techno-Rock band No Smoking. Soon before the Balkan war broke out in the early 1990s, band leader <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438785/>Dr. Nele Karajlic moved to Belgrade and in 1994 formed a new band with younger musicians, including <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476413/>Stribor Kusturica, Emir Kusturica’s son, on drums. In 1998 the No Smoking composed the music for Emir Kusturica’s film <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118843/>Crna macka, beli macor (1998), which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival of that year. In 1999 No Smoking recorded a new album Unza Unza Time, produced by the Universal record company, as well as a video clip for MTV and Video Music, directed by <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001437/>Emir Kusturica himself.
One of four director whose two movies had won Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, other three being <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000338/>Francis Ford Coppola (<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/>The Conversation (1974) and <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/>Apocalypse Now (1979) ), <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0408076/>Shohei Imamura (<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084390/>Narayama bushiko (1983) and<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120408/>Unagi (1997) ) and <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000806/>Bille August (<a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093713/>Pelle erobreren (1987) and <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104350/>Goda viljan, Den (1992) ).
Is an only child.
Grew up in Sarajevo.
Grand jury at 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Has not been to Sarajevo, his birthplace, since 1992.
Two children, Stribor and Dunja.
Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993
Changed his first name Emir to Nemanja. The real reason is unknown but the rumor is that he did it to proof his Serbian roots.
Often stays in Douains, Eure, France.
Often works with actors <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830371/>Slavko Stimac and <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543547/>Miki Manojlovic.
Father of <a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476413/>Stribor Kusturica.
Personal Quotes
Every time I’m shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don’t see the light in the end of the tunnel.
I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, 10 in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports. Cities are humiliating places to live, particularly in this part of the world.
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernise, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. Since they don’t have experience of the west, they even believe that western shit is pie.
OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.
Everything must be sold! Everything must be for sale! Everyone must buy! Everyone must have a Jeep!
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. Why don’t I see a Frank Capra today? Because people aren’t like this anymore? People haven’t changed that much in 60 years.
I’m fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?
Miloshevich’s main mistake was that he thought the Serbs numbered 250 million and that he didn’t have two Atom bombs in his pocket.