The tribe


Emir has discovered talents, let play gypsies or legendary American stars... He also worked with the best Yugoslav actors.



Miki Manojlović


Name : Pedrag 'Miki' Manojlović
Birth : 5 april 1950, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

Filmography (Kusturica's films)

Filmography (other)

  • 1990 : Un week end sur deux by Nicole Garcia, Adrian
  • 1992 : Tito and me by Goran Marković, the father
  • 1995 : Someone else's America by Goran Paskaljević, Bayo
  • 1998 : Cabaret Balkan by Goran Paskaljević, Michael
  • 1999 : Les amants criminels by François Ozon, the man of the forest
  • 2000 : Sans plomb by Muriel Teodori, Salomon
  • 2000 : Mortel Transfert by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Erostrate
  • 2003 : The lost sailors by Claire Devers, Abdul Aziz
  • 2004 : Ne fait pas ça ! by Luc Bondy

Miki Manojlović is a cosmopolitan and early actor. Born in Yugoslavia with parents actor themselves, he plays for the first time in 1956. In 1972, he finishes his studies at the of the Art faculty of Belgrade, and starts an actor career that will not stop any more. It is initially with the theatre that he shines, by interpreting Hamlet, Charles II, Caligula, Macbeth, Cyrano...
Main character in the two Golden Palms of Emir Kusturica - When father was away on business and Underground -, Miki Manojlović is the most famous of the Yugoslav actors. Born in Belgrade - his mother has Montenegrin Croatian origins, his father is Serb with French origin, and both are actors -, Miki plays at the theatre as well as at the cinema, abroad as well as in his own country.

And if he had not been already booked for the Mahabharata of Peter Brook (theatre), he would have also played in Time of the gypsies.

Miki Manojlović, talking about the NATO bombardments in 1999 : Westerners must understand that no one can constraint anybody, that Balkans need to live their own life with their own multiplicity of cultures, religions, languages. They must understand that they should not worsen the situation with their own frustrations and their ideas which do not function, that the more bombs will fall in Yugoslavia, the less safety will be in Europe.


Perhan


Name : Davor Dujmović
Birth : 1969, Sarajevo (Yougoslavie)
Death : 3 june 1999, Novo Mesto (Slovenia), suicide

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)

Emir met Davor in the streets of Sarajevo when he was making the casting for When father was away on business. He was 13 and was entrust the role of older brother Mirza. He appeared to be an exceptionnal actor, even though completely amateur, 4 years later in Time of the gypsies. Emir was fascinated by his capacity to transform his face from an extreme sweetness to much stronger feelings.

Davor Dujmović committed suicide in 1999 after a severe depression.



Srdjan Todorović


Name : Srdjan Todorović
Birth : 28 march 1968, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)

Filmography (other)

Srdjan, the bad guy in Black Cat White Cat is Golub's son in Underground !

In Serbia, Srdjan is a well known actor who manages each time to compose a new face, playing all kinds of characters.



Slavko Štimac


Name : Slavko Štimac
Birth : 15 october 1960, Konjsko Brdo (Croatia)

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)


Slavko Štimac is an actor who has a long career in ex-Yugoslavia, and is often named by Emir Kusturica the "Anthony Perkins of the Balkans", for his great acting skills, but also his striking ressemblance with the schizophrene hero of Psycho...



Ljubica Adžović


Name : Ljubica "Aïcha" Adžović

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)

She refuses to play with anyone else than Emir Kusturica.

Due to problems with the Albanian Maffia, Pehran's Grandmother asked political asylum in France after having lost all her goods in Montenegro. Read the AFP news of Monday June 18, 2001.



Bora Todorović


Name : Bora Todorović

Birth : 5 november 1930, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)

October 2000, after the Revolution in Belgrade, he greets new president Vojislav Koštunica and asks the people to support the government with these words : "the cinema goes on again !" (this sentence resulting from the one of his most famous films : The Marathon Family, 1982)

In November 2002, he received the prize "Pavle Vuisic" celebrating his whole career in Yugoslav cinema.



Mirjana Karanović


Name : Mirjana Karanović

Birth : 28 january 1957, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)

Filmography (other)


Stribor Kusturica


Name : Stribor Kusturica
Birth : 1979, Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)

Filmography (Kusturica's movies)


Stribor is of course the elder son of Emir Kusturica
Stribor is drummer in No Smoking Orchestra group, it's him who had the idea of the Unza Unza concept...