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Life Is a Miracle
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Wikipedia article
'Life Is a Miracle' is a Serbian drama film directed by Emir Kusturica in 2004. It was entered into the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It received nomination at the Golden Eagle Award in 2005 for Best Foreign Language Film.
Plot
The film opens just as construction has been completed on a railway connecting a mountainous regions of eastern Bosnia and western Serbia in 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer, has moved to Bosnia from Belgrade with his mentally unstable wife, Jadranka, and his football-playing son, Milo, to run a railway station and act as caretaker. Luka is at work preparing the opening of the railway while Milo attempts to become a professional footballer with the Partizan team. Utterly engrossed in his work and blinded by natural optimism, Luka remains deaf to the increasingly persistent rumblings of war, which has broken out in Croatia and threatens to spread.
When the conflict explodes, Milo is denied his place on the football field when he is enlisted into the Serbian army, and Jadranka disappears on the arm of a Hungarian musician. Eventually, Luka receives news that Milo has been taken prisoner of war. Luka considers suicide, but a profiteering acquaintance presents him with Sabaha, a Bosnian Muslim whom he has taken hostage.
Luka intends to exchange Sabaha for Milo, but the two fall in love after they are forced to flee deeper into Serb-controlled territory. When a UN-enforced prisoner exchange is finally arranged, Luka and Sabaha try to escape to Serbia at an attempt to cross the Drina river, but Sabaha is wounded by a Bosnian sniper after squatting to urinate behind a tree. Army nurses narrowly manage to save Sabaha's life, and she is exchanged for Milo, along with other prisoners. Jadranka also returns, and the family is reunited in their old home, but Luka is lovesick. He lies down in front of a train, but when the train stops to avoid running over a mule, it is revealed that Sabaha is on board, and the two ride away on the mule.
Cast
*Slavko timac Luka
*Nataa olak Sabaha
*Vesna Trivali Jadranka
*Goran Jevti - Mitar
*Vuk Kosti Milo
*Aleksandar Berek Veljo
*Stribor Kusturica Captain Aleksi
*Nikola Kojo Filipovi
*Mirjana Karanovi Nada
*Branislav Lalevi President
*Obrad Djurovi Vujan
See also
*List of most expensive Serbian films
*Drvengrad
References
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