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Life Is a Miracle(2004)
Status: Released
Date: 2004-05-14
73%
170 Votes
Time: 2h 35m
Overview:
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.
Languages: German, Serbian, English, Hungarian.
Countries:
France,
Italy,
Serbia and Montenegro
Budget: $8,000,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Les Films Alain Sarde
Rasta Films
Movie: Life Is a Miracle
Top 10 Billed Cast
Slavko Štimac
Luka Đurić
Nataša Tapušković
Sabaha
Vesna Trivalić
Jadranka Đurić
Vuk Kostić
Miloš Đurić
Aleksandar Berček
Veljo
Mirjana Karanović
Nada
Nikola Kojo
Filipović
Davor Janjić
Tomo
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