Life Is a Miracle

7.2 (199 votes)• 2004• 155m•Released

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Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.

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Languages: Serbian, German, Hungarian, English

Director: Emir Kusturica

Starring Cast: Slavko Štimac, Nataša Tapušković, Vesna Trivalić, Vuk Kostić, Aleksandar Berček, Stribor Kusturica

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