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Life Is a Miracle
MEANRANK
79/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90. Critics average 90, everyone else 77.
See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Emir Kusturica
- Writers
- Emir Kusturica, Ranko Božić
- Studio
- Les Films Alain Sarde, StudioCanal, Rasta Films
- Released
- 14 May 2004
- Country
- France, Serbia and Montenegro
- Language
- Serbian
- Runtime
- 155 min
- Budget
- $8.0M