Emir Nemanja Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker actor and musician recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films He is a twotime winner of the Palme dOr 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 mid2000s Kusturicas primary residence is Drvengrad a village in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for his film Life Is a Miracle