Emir Kusturica’s storybook published in Russia Automatic translate

MOSCOW. The storybook of the famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica called “One Hundred Troubles” was released on Wednesday by the Russian publishing house “Alphabet”. The book includes six short stories, which take place in the last decades of the twentieth century. According to the publishers, Kusturica wrote these stories in the opposite and even in spite of modern life.

“This book appeared by itself, and I had no choice but to take on it… I managed to put together these sharp pictures from the past that had sunk along with Tito and his government,” said Kusturica, quoted by the publishing house. In the comic, burlesque, absurd, and sometimes tragic situations in which the heroes of his stories find themselves, the indefatigable imagination of the director, his thoughts about the fate of his homeland, about the moment when youth is faced with harsh reality and the realization that childhood is left behind, were reflected.

On the account of the famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica such legendary films as “Life as a Miracle”, “Black Cat, White Cat”, “Time of Gypsies” and others. An outstanding film figure is a four-time winner of the Cannes Film Festival, a winner of the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals, and a laureate of the Cesar Award. In addition to his cinematographic and literary activities, Kusturica is also known to many as a musician.

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