Sirius, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, March 5, 2024
Film director Emir Kusturica. Photo: english.ahram.org
The famous Serbian Orthodox film director Emir Kusturica is planning a new project based on two works of the famous novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
“The next movie I’m going to film here, in St. Petersburg and Siberia, will be Crime Without Punishment. It will be a combination of The Idiot and Crime and Punishment,” Kusturica said during the World Youth Festival currently taking place in the Krasnodar Krai in Russia.
After the Dostoevsky mashup, the director then plants to tackle Eugene Vodolazkin’s international best-seller novel Laurus, and then something from the Russian author Nikolai Gogol.
Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director and actor who has won awards at the world’s largest festivals, including two Palme d’Ors from the Cannes Film Festival.
The director was born into a secular Muslim family in Sarajevo in 1954. On St. George’s Day in 2005, he was baptized Orthodox at the Savina Monastery near Herceg Novi, Montenegro. To those who accused him of betraying his Bosnian roots, he replied:
My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. Okay, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were Orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks.
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