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Release Date:
August 23, 2013
Original Title:
Кто такой этот Кустурица?
Alternate Titles:
Kto takoy etot Kusturitsa?
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Channel One
VSTRECHA Studio
Production Countries:
Russia
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 92
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...
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Director:
Natalya Gugueva
Director of Photography:
Irina Uralskaya
Ivan Alferov
Editor:
Evgeny Zhizhikin
Producer:
Natalya Gugueva
Svetlana Kolosova
Oleg Volnov
Sound Director:
Andrey Chernavin
Writer:
Natalya Gugueva
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