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This is a part of Mecavnik (Wooden Town), strange place made by famous movie's director Emir Kusturica. He was awarded for architecture for this magical point.
Mecavnik lies between mountains Zlatibor (Golden Pine) and Tara, in Western Serbia.
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Guča Trumpet Festival, Serbia
Sep 27, 2012 Explore #37
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Andrićgrad meaning "Andrić's town" is the name of a construction project located in Višegrad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina by director Emir Kusturica. The town is dedicated to Yugoslav novelist Ivo Andrić, Nobel prize winner.
It was officially opened on 28 June 2014, with the grand opening marking the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip.
Andrićgrad is located near the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge on the Drina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Dans le cadre du concours MAP 2001 - "Le photographe rencontre la rue" L'histoire complète... et sur le site du concours.
Only diptychs, live colors, live of the night, my vision of story... My Stories
(Olympus EP-2 + Angenieux 25 0.95 + Voigtlander nokton 50 1,1)
Video produced for my semiotics master's degree to explain people how Flickr works. Music by Kusturica.
With special 90th anniversary-markings (mostly as JAT...)
First flight: November 17, 1999…(c/n 1140)
29/12/1999 TACA N473TA
13/02/2002 TACA Peru N473TA
20/02/2006 Volaris N473TA stored 04/2013
30/10/2013 Air Serbia A6-SAA named 'Emir Kusturica'
20/06/2014 Air Serbia YU-API
Writer Leila Sucari in her room, with white cat Kusturica.
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical.
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Si yo fuera Maradona
Viviria como el
Si yo fuera maradona
Frente a cualquier portería
Si yo fuera maradona
Nunca m'equivocaria
Si yo fuera maradona
Perdido en cualquier lugar
La vida es una tombola
De noche y de dia
La vida es una tombola
Y arriba y arriba
Si yo fuera Maradona
Viviría como el
Mil cohetes mil amigos
Y lo que venga a mil por cien
Si yo fuera Maradona
Saldria en mondovision
Para gritarle a la FIFA
Que ellos son el gran ladron !
La vida es una tombola
De noche y de día
la vida es una tombola
Y arriba y arriba
Si yo fuera Maradona
Viviria como el
Porque el mundo es una bola
Que se vive a flor de piel
Si yo fuera Maradona
Frente a cualquier porquería
Nunca me equivocaría
Si yo fuera Maradona
y un partido que llamar
Si yo fuera maradona
Perdido en cualquier lugar
La vida es una tombola
De noche y de día
La vida es una tombola
(La Vida Tombola by Manu Chao.)
One of the station platforms on the Sargan route
"Mokra Gora" (Serbian: Мокра Гора, meaning the Wet Mountain in English, is a village in Serbia on the northern slopes of mountain Zlatibor.
Mokra Gora has become popular after a reconstruction of a narrow gauge railway called Šargan Eight which is unique in the world. Its route viewed from the sky, looks like the number 8.
In addition, the well-known Serbian film director Emir Kusturica has also made a contribution to the development of tourism in Mokra Gora. He financed the construction of an ethno village Drvengrad (Timber Town). For this development, Kusturica received the "Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Award" from the Brussels Foundation for Architecture.
During our holiday we visited Drvengrad. A village created by my favorite filmaker he filled this village with "artifacts" he used in his movies. This Volga is one of them.
General info:
Emir Nemanja Kusturica , born 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo, is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He is a two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being a Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a village in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village (drvengrad) reconstructed for his film Life Is a Miracle.
DRVENGRAD ( woodentown) - A handful of wooden houses on Mokra gora, in central western Serbia on the border with Bosnia, a tranquil and idyllic setting removed from the hustle and bustle of city life, the tiny location which hosted already the fourth edition of the Kustendorf Film and Music Festival, the event conceived and carried out by Emir Kusturica, the original and for some aspects eccentric Serb director who built the village to reflect his own image and appearance.
About the initiative in the past Kusturica explained that "I lost my birthplace Sarajevo during the war, and that is why I truly desired to build my very own village. I will set up workshops for people who want to learn how to make movies, organise concerts, make ceramic artefacts and paint. It will be the place where I will live and where people and friends will come to visit me from time to time. I dream about a place out in the open characterised by cultural diversity capable of countering globalisation...".
Located in the region of Zlatibor, approximately 200 kilometres southwest of Belgrade, Drvengrad is not far from Mokra Gora and Visegrad, the city of the Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andric, the Yugoslavian writer who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Kusturica's village is also known by the name of Kustendorf, a name invented by the director made up by his nickname Kusta and the German word Dorf, village.
In 2005 the Serb director gained for Drvengrad the Philippe Rottier European Architecture Award.
The main street of the village, which has on display an old Fiat 850, an East German Trabant and a Russian Volga, all made in the '70s, is named after Federico Fellini, and the other streets are named after movie, entertainment, art and sports celebrities such as Nikita Mikhalkov, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Andrei Tarkovski, Diego Armando Maradona, Ingmar Bergman and Novak Djokovic
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Writer Leila Sucari in her room, with black cat Greta and white cat, Kusturica.
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical.
Mokra Gora (Serbian Cyrillic: Мокра Гора), meaning the Wet Mountain in English, is a village in Serbia on the northern slopes of mountain Zlatibor. Emphasis on historical reconstruction has made it into a popular tourist center with unique attractions.
Mokra Gora has become popular after a reconstruction of a narrow gauge railway called Šargan Eight which is unique in the world. Its route viewed from the sky, looks like the number 8.
In addition, the well-known Serbian film director Emir Kusturica has also made a contribution to the development of tourism in Mokra Gora. He financed the construction of an ethno village Drvengrad (Timber Town). For this development, Kusturica received the "Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Award" from the Brussels Foundation for Architecture.
Drvengrad is also known as Küstendorf, as a word play on German "dorf" (village) and Kusturica's nickname, "Kusta". Also, "Küste" is German for coast. Kusturica has also been known to call it Mećavnik, which is the name of the neighbouring village.
Drvengrad has a library, named the Ivo Andrić Library; an artist gallery named Macola in honor of sculptor Dragan Jovićević (it was previously known as Anika, after a character from Ivo Andrić's prose); Stanley Kubrick Cinema; a main house which houses a cinema-hall in the cellar, a living room, a guest room, a closed yard, a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a sauna and private rooms for the Kusturica family; a sports hall; a restaurant; a cake shop, as well as a souvenir shop; and finally, a Church dedicated to St. Sava.
Emir Kusturica stated:
“I lost my city [Sarajevo] during the war. That is why I wished to build my own village. It bears a German name : Küstendorf. I will organize seminars there, for people who want to learn how to make cinema, concerts, ceramics, painting. It is the place where I will live and where some people will be able to come from time to time. There will be of course some other inhabitants who will work. I dream of an open place with cultural diversity which sets up against globalization.”
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French postcard by Sonis, no. F. 103. Photo: Warner Bros. Monica Bellucci in The Matrix Reloaded (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2003).
Stunningly beautiful Italian actress and fashion model Monica Bellucci (1964) is one of the few major European film stars of the last decades. Her role of Sci-Fi vixen Persephone in the Matrix series made her a worldwide sex symbol. Other remarkable roles include Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Lucia Sciarra in Spectre (2015), the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise.
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Italy in 1964 (some sources cite 1968 or 1969). She was the only child of painter Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci, an owner of a trucking company, and she grew up in San Giustino. Bellucci began modelling at age 13 by posing for a local photo enthusiast. However, she thought she would be an attorney, but dropped out of the University of Perugia when a modelling career beckoned. In 1988, Bellucci moved to fashion centre Milan, where she signed with Elite Model Management. By 1989, she was becoming prominent as a fashion model in Paris and New York City. She posed for Dolce & Gabbana and French Elle, among others. In that year, Bellucci made the transition to acting and began taking acting classes. Bellucci's film career began with a part opposite Giancarlo Giannini in the TV film Vita coi figli/Life with kids (Dino Risi), 1990. That year she married Claudio Carlos Basso, but they divorced four years later. She played a leading role in La Riffa/The raffle (Francesco Laudadio, 1991) with Massimo Ghini, and was one of Count Dracula's brides in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992). In 1996 she was nominated for a César Award for the best-supporting actress for her portrayal of Lisa in L'Appartement/The Apartment (Gilles Mimouni, 1996). In England, it won the Bafta award for the best foreign-language film. The film was also a modest box office success in France, the Netherlands, and other European countries. Her co-star in this film was French actor Vincent Cassel, with whom she married in 1999. They have appeared together in several films since, and have two daughters, Deva (2004) and Léonie (2010).
Monica Bellucci became known and popular with worldwide audiences when she played the title role in the romantic drama Malèna (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2000). Malèna is the tale of a 13-year-old boy's obsession with a beautiful woman in a small Sicilian town during World War II. Malèna is a quiet young bride who is left alone in a small Sicilian town when her husband goes off to fight in World War II. Stunningly attractive, she struggles to keep her dignity as she is spurned by the female villagers and preyed upon by the men. Bellucci followed this hit with roles in two other successful films. She was a courtesan in the French horror film Le Pacte des loups/Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans, 2001) with Samuel LeBihan, and a rape victim in the violent drama Irréversible/Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) with Vincent Cassel. She became the subject of numerous fan sites and men's magazine articles. In the cinema she appeared as Cleopatra in Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre/Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Alain Chabat, 2002), starring Christian Clavier and Gérard Depardieu and based on the comic book Astérix et Cléopatre by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The following year she played Persephone in the highly anticipated follow-ups to The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), both directed by the Wachowski's, and starring Keanu Reeves. She then got the role of Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004) featuring Jim Caviezel. The film covers the final 12 hours of Jesus' life, beginning with the Agony in the Garden and ending with a brief depiction of his resurrection. The violent and highly controversial production was a blockbuster. Worldwide, The Passion of the Christ earned more than $600,000,000.
In 2004, while pregnant with her daughter Deva, Monica Bellucci posed nude for the Italian Vanity Fair Magazine in protest against Italian laws, that prevent the use of donor sperm. From 2006 to 2010, she was the face of a range of Dior products. She kept working in international films. She was the Mirror Queen in The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam, 2005), starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger in an exaggerated and fictitious portrait of the Brothers Grimm as travelling con-artists in French-occupied Germany during the early 19th century. In the French thriller Ne te retourne pas/Don't Look Back (Marina de Van, 2009), she co-starred with Sophie Marceau. She played a sorceress in the fantasy adventure film The Sorcerer's Apprentice (John Turteltaub, 2010) with Nicolas Cage, and a Bosnian woman in The Whistleblower (Larysa Kondracki, 2010) with Rachel Weisz. In 2012 Monica Bellucci became the new face of Dolce & Gabbana and she also made the film Fasle Kargadan/Rhino Season (2012) for Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi, and the French film Des gens qui s'embrassent/People Who Embrace (Daniele Thompson, 2013). In 2013, she and Vincent Kassel divorced. She played Lucia Sciarra in Spectre (Sam Mendes, 2015) opposite Daniel Craig as James Bond. At the age of 50, Bellucci became the oldest Bond girl in the history of the franchise. She had previously auditioned for the role of Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode, 1997), but was passed over in favour of Teri Hatcher. Spectre grossed over $880 million worldwide, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2015. A year later, Monica Bellucci played a bride in the midst of the Bosnian War in On the Milky Road (Emir Kusturica, 2016). Her recent films include the French drama Les plus belles années d'une vie/The Best Years of a Life (Claude Lelouch, 2019) with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, and the upcoming American thriller Memory (Martin Campbell, 2022) with Liam Neeson and Guy Pearce.
Sources: Aubry Anne D'Arminio (AllMovie), Film Reference, NNDB, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Ojciec chrzestny szarej strefy,
władca świata
On całym wszechświatem dziś pomiata
Każdy człowiek więc ze strachu wyje,
czekając, aż w końcu mu odbije.
Bo póki Wielki Brat chodzi wolno,
Nie zaznamy świata poza wojną.
Tak długo smaku pokoju nie poczujesz,
Póki Wielki Brat
w końcu nie przedawkuje.
Na planecie tej skończą się wojny,
póki Wielki Brat jest ciągle wolny..