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Τετάρτη 13 Νοεμβρίου 2013

Emir Kusturica and Orthodoxy

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Emir Kusturica Bruxelles05.jpgOn Đurđevdan (St. George's Day) in 2005, he was baptised into the Serbian Orthodox Church as Nemanja Kusturica (Немања Кустурица) at the Savina monastery near Herceg Novi, Montenegro.[36][37] To his critics who considered this the final betrayal of his Bosniak roots, he replied that:

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were Orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that.[5][36][38]
Despite the aforementioned conflict of religion, Kusturica refused to see himself as either a Bosniak or Serb. Instead, he had continued to insist that he was simply a Yugoslav.[35]
Kusturica has said that when his mother was on deathbed, he wanted to find out his ancestry; he found out from books that the origin of the Kusturica family stem from two Orthodox Christian lines.[39] He traced his family origin before the conversion to Islam, to the Babić family, precisely to a Kusturica that helped build the Arslanagić bridge in the 18th century, that hailed from Bileća (he took the surname Kusturica when Islamized).[40] Аccording to scholar Jevto Dedijer (1880–1918), when he researched the Bileća region (1902): the Kusturica family lived in a čopor (grouped area, literally "pack") in the village of Plana; they had eight houses next to the Kozjak family (four houses), northwest across a field from the Avdić family (23 houses).[41] In Granica, there was a family surnamed Kusturica which had left Plana 80 years earlier.[41] Avdija Krivokapić, an Islamized Montenegrin and progenitor of the Avdić family, reportedly was honoured by the Sultan for his military service; on the way home to Herzegovina, in Kyustendil, he bought a gypsy and brought him to Plana; this gypsy was allegedly an ancestor of the Kusturica family.[41]

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