“Actor of the Decade” and “Sexiest Man Alive,” Johnny Depp made his arrival in freezing Belgrade, Serbia on January 12th, 2010. He got into an awaiting vehicle with Serbian director/actor Emir Kusturica.
The mega star is in Belgrade to attend the Kustendorf Film Festival. He will attend a workshop alongside Kusturica after a screening of Arizona Dream at the Kubric Theater. Depp starred in the 1993 comedy/drama directed by Emir.
On Wednesday, a life-sized bust of Depp will be unveiled to mark the opening of the third Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival in Drvengrad, built in 2005 as a setting for Kusturica’s film “Life Is A Miracle.” Depp will also receive a special award named the “Award for Future Movies”.
The third film festival will be held from January 13th to the 19th 2010.
Kusturica recently announced he will make film about Mexico’s 19th-century bandit-turned-revolutionary Pancho Villa, to be played by Depp.
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Dear author Rosy,I beilive that these days Miami is more freezing city then Belgrade,comparing actual temperatures of mentioned cities.Belgrade is +15 degrees C and Miami below zero.Secondly,Emir kusturica is not Bosnian but Serbian director/actor.Born in one country does not mean that you live in that country.Kusturica considers himself being serbian actor,thereso let`s respect someones will.
Thank you
Viktor
Emir Kusturica was born in Bosnia, but he is Serbian, and was baptized in Serbian Orthodox Church. I live in Belgrade, it’s very cold, only + 3*C.
Thank you all for your comments. I read he was born in Bosnia but did not realize he is considered Serbian. I do respect Mr. Kusturica and will update this information right now.
I highly doubt it has been colder here in Miami than in Belgrade! We are having about 60 degree F weather today. If it is warmer, I wish I could join you all there!
We Bosnian’s don’t want him !!! He’s a traitor to his hometown, nation, and people. He was degenerate enough to defend the war criminal Milosevic during the the genocide that was committed in Bosnia in the 90s. He did achieve most of his success as a Bosnian but since the war he is nothing but a snake in the grass who hates himself and his people enough to wish harm upon them. I hope he never sets foot in Bosnia-Herzegovina again for as long as he lives. We Bosnians have much more accomplished and personable directors such as Danis Tanovic (Acadamy Award Winner) and Jasmila Zbanic (Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear award) to represent our country in the cinematic arts.
@SarajevoSeattle, I think you have big problem with generalization and hatredness.There are no good and bad sides in eny war,especialy bosnian.Maybe we would swallow your story earlier but not any more.Both sides made a lot of crimes and bad things.
Back to Kusturica,he left Bosnia when the war began and moved to Serbia.That was his choice and of his family.He did not took any part in that war.His right is to choose which country or nation to belong to.
Thereso,we can talk only about his pre and after Yugolsav career.Or Yugoslav and Serbian.Not Bosnian.
Anyway he is internationally acclaimed director respected among other directors and actors whose wife is Serbian and he likes to follow her decisions.Girls are always right,don`t you think so.Have better intuition and we simply can not withstand their charm.
My appologize to Rosy,I saw that Belgrade is cold these days but I heard that Florida was strangely cold last week,i think.
@Victor
Only the Bosnian Serbs were convicted of having committed genocide so save your futile equating of war crimes for the Serb propagandists who get paid to write those types of lies.
As far as Kusturica is concerned SarajevoSeattle is correct in his basic assessment that Kusturica is considered to be a traitor by the Bosnian people and that his actions during the war are seen as having been deeply immoral since he befriended and publicly defended Serbian politicians which were charged and convicted of war crimes. He willfully chose to be the Serbian’s fascist regime’s spokesperson and tried to deny the war crimes that were committed, or much like yourself tried in vain to convince the world that everyone was equally guilty of committing war crimes, which has been disproved by the ICJY and the ICJ.
If he didn’t want to live in Bosnia then he certainly had a right to leave the country but him cozying up and publicly defending Serbian war criminals and the war crimes they were committing has ruined his reputation beyond repair in Bosnia-Herzegovina and to some degree internationally.
@FromHamburgWithLove , I have strong feeling that you want to keep with only one side of the medal and there is no purpose to talk about equal fascism,if there was any.
I am not Serbian but I know as well as Depp that your story doesn`t hold any water.
@Viktor,
FromHamburgWithLove makes a good argument. For one to understand why mr. Kosturica ‘changed from Bosnian to Serbian’, (or how this were possible) one needs to look at Bosnian history. It’s funny how the development of events lead to a strange feeling of identity in Bosnia. Since the discriminating factor in south-Slav countries of national identity today is religion, mr Kosturica was able to change his ethnicity by simply changing religion. His actions need explaining. You see: in the 1800′s, Serbs had their mind set for Bosnia and began lobbying in Bosnia: the orthodox to ‘call’ themselves “Serbs”. And so did the Croats. This campaign of propaganda became larger and eventually ultra-nationalism was born. During this period of making things up, the Serbs invented that the Bosnian people are of Serb descend but the weaker ones ‘changed religion’ in order to gain more freedoms, thus selling their own people out. So now they have become “Turks” or “potur”, in other words, their oppressor!
It has come to my attention that mr. Kosturica believes these products of 100+ years of propaganda, (which is btw of hollywood quality) and doesn’t like the role he has been given since birth, a Muslim. He should read Noel Malcolms Bosnia: a short history, it will clear things up.