Zivot je cudo (Life Is a Miracle) (Hungry Heart)

Zivot je cudo (Life Is a Miracle) (Hungry Heart) (2004)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (4,948 ratings)

The tragedy of the war in Bosnia makes way for the humor and compassion of people living their lives under difficult circumstances in this comedy drama from filmmaker Emir Kusturica. In 1992, war is brewing in Bosnia, but the city fathers in the town of Golobuci are going ahead with their plans of… More

Unrated, 2 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
Emir Kusturica
Written By
Ranko Bozic, Emir Kusturica
Genres
Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
May 14, 2004 Limited
Bac Films

Critic Reviews

  • Enrique Buchichio, Uruguay Total

    Kusturica se repite a sí mismo y entrega una alocada comedia sobre el amor, la locura y la guerra.

  • Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

    A superb story is drowned out by Kusturica's zany and chaotic style

  • Rich Cline, Film Threat

    A superb story is drowned out by Kusturica's zany and chaotic style

  • Boyd van Hoeij, european-films.net

    Kusturica's warm characters inhabit a world that is both absurd and at the same time strangely akin to our own.

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  • Panta O


    The shooting of "?ivot je čudo" lasted thirteen months, from March 2002 to April 2003, without any real pause. Kusturica gave his best even under very unfavourable weather conditions and he had constant rewriting of the scenario... A long version of the film was… More

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