Küstendorf is a the traditional village created by Emir Kusturica
Every January, the Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival delivers its golden, silver and bronze eggs in the small village of the same name, two hundred kilometers southwest of Belgrade. No expensive statuettes, your hand-decorated metal awards right here by the painter Bisenije Terschenko.
Wooden houses, brightly colored carpentry and mountain views make up the scenery of Küstendorf , a tiny town also called Drvengrad. Invented and built on the top of the Mecavnik hill by the film director and musician Emir Kusturica, it recreates the traditional life in this Serbian region.
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It was in 2004, during the filming of ‘Life is a miracle’, when Kusturica decided to build a small villa that would serve as a setting for the film and also to live with his family during filming.
This is how Küstendorf became that special and utopian place that it is today, that ‘open and culturally diverse space that stands up against globalization’ that the filmmaker dreamed of after experiencing horror and destruction in Sarajevo, his hometown, during the Balkan war.
Kusturica’s own is the only home in the village, the rest of the buildings house hotel rooms, a bar, a cafe, two restaurants offering excellent Serbian cuisine, an Orthodox chapel, a shop, a museum, a theater and a movie theater dedicated to Stanley. Kubrick.
