Emir Kusturica, Filmmaker

02/11/09 17:37 CET

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“I was in the United States. I was teaching at Columbia, so I was taking it as just another working day.

So for me, all these things that happened once, for me as an author, I read them, much before either I read them later.

The event for me (was) not as strong as for those who were living behind the wall, because I was crossing it many times, even as a student.

But I’m certainly happy. Unfortunately, unification of Germany meant dis-unification of my country. So this is another angle.”

More about: 1989-2009, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, Germany

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