Zivot je cudo (2004)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.7/10   

Réalisateur:

Emir Kusturica

Writers:

Ranko Bozic (scenario and dialogue) &
Emir Kusturica (scenario and dialogue)

Release Date:

14 mai 2004 (France)

Genre:

Comedie | Romance | Music | Drame | War

Plot:

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..

Plot Keywords:

Civil War | Romeo And Juliet | Slapstick | Balkan | Train

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

beauty and madness in the Balkans

Ensemble

Slavko Stimac	...	Luka Djuric
Natasa Solak	...	Sabaha
Vesna Trivalic	...	Jadranka Djuric - Luka's wife
Vuk Kostic	...	Milos Djuric
Aleksandar Bercek	...	Veljo
Stribor Kusturica	...	Kapetan Aleksic
Mirjana Karanovic	...	Nada
Branislav Lalevic	...	Radovan, predsednik
Nikola Kojo	...	Filipovic
Davor Janjic	...	Tomo Krtola
Adnan Omerovic	...	Esad
Obrad Djurovic	...	Vujan
Dr. Nele Karajlic	...	Cimbalista (as Dr. Nelle Karajlic)
Dana Todorovic	...	SFTV reporter (as Danica Todorovic)
Vanessa Glodjo	...	Bolnicarka

Autre(s) titre(s):

Life Is a Miracle (International: English title) (USA) (literal English title)
Hungry Heart (International: English title)
Kad je zivot bio cudo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Serbo-Croatian title) (working title)
La vie est un miracle! (France)
La vita è un miracolo (Italy)

Durée:

France:155 min | Germany:154 min | Argentina:155 min

Pays:

Serbia and Montenegro | France | Italy

Langue:

Serbe | Anglais | Allemand | Hongrois

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Classification:

Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Germany:12 | Hungary:16 | Sweden:11 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:16 | Ireland:15A | Netherlands:12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Cacak, Serbia

Company:

Les Films Alain Sarde

Anecdotes:

When the tunnel is blasted, the bazooka operator sings a medley of songs by The Doors, specially "Touch Me" and "The End".

Goofs:

Continuity: 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)

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Mi nismo andjeli 2 (2005)

beauty and madness in the Balkans

There is no film maker today to bring to screen the beauty and madness of the Balkans like Kusturica does. 'Life is a miracle' will be seen in time, I believe, as the ultimate film about the Bosnian war.

The main character Luka (played by Slavko Stimac) is a train engineer, building a railroad in a remote corner of Yugoslavia, near the Bosnian border. It's the end of the communist rule, and lingering ethnic conflicts start showing up and replace the patriarchal life. When war breaks, Luka's son will be drafted into the Serbian army and fall prisoner, while his wife runs out with a Hungarian singer. The conflict around that he tried to ignore by work, partying and booze invades his life. And still salvation is out there, the day a beautiful Bosnian prisoner (yet a neighbor of yesterday) shows up Luka will build a plan to make an exchange of prisoners between her and her son, but soon will fall in love.

Kusturica succeeds to paint in naive painters colors a world that slowly slides from normality into madness, where neighbors become enemies, and violence the rule. He is funny and exuberant, but his humor is the humor of the fool of the village, and his exuberance is the exuberance of desperation. As in many great movies it is love that redeems and brings back human feelings to where they should be. Kusturica builds a world of characters who are tragic and funny, colorful and overall avid to live a life despite of the vicissitudes of history.

Wonderful.