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Since 2008, the village hosts the annual [[Küstendorf Film & Music Festival]]<ref>http://www.kustendorf-filmandmusicfestival.org/</ref>, which showcases films and music from all around the world. The festival is known for not having a [[red carpet]] as well as the fact that its opening ceremony each year features a performance depicting the stylized burial of one of the movies from the ''[[Die Hard]]'' franchise. |
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Revision as of 06:16, 14 November 2009
Drvengrad (Serbian cyrillic: Дрвенград), meaning Wooden Town in Serbo-Croatian is a traditional village that the Serbian film director Emir Kusturica had built for his film Life Is a Miracle. It is located in the Zlatibor District near the city of Užice, two hundred kilometers southwest of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. It is located near Mokra Gora and Višegrad, best known for Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina. Kusturica was the 2005 recipient of the Philippe Rotthier European Architecture award[1].
The idea
Emir Kusturica stated:
"I lost my city during the war. This is why I wished to build my own village. It bears a German name : Küstendorf. I will organize there seminars 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 other inhabitants who will work there. I dream of an open place with cultural diversity which sets up against globalization."[2]
Village
Drvengrad is also known as Küstendorf, as a word play on German "dorf" (village) and Kusturica's nickname, "Kusta". Kusturica has also been known to call it Mećavnik, which is the name of the neighbouring village.
Drvengrad has a library, known as the "Ivo Andrić Library"; an artist gallery named "Macola" in honor of sculptor Dragan Jovicevic which was previously known as "Anika," after a character from Ivo Andrić's prose; "Cinema Stanley Kubrick"; 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.
Nearby is also a ski domain comprised of four ski trails, as well as a hotel named "Mladost" (meaning "Youth") for visitors.
The streets in the village bear the names of different individuals that Kusturica holds in high esteem or finds to be personally significant: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Diego Maradona, Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Joe Strummer, Novak Djoković and of course, Ivo Andrić, after whom the main street is named.
Film and music festival
Since 2008, the village hosts the annual Küstendorf Film & Music Festival[3], which showcases films and music from all around the world. The festival is known for not having a red carpet as well as the fact that its opening ceremony each year features a performance depicting the stylized burial of one of the movies from the Die Hard franchise.
References
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