it's not so hard to imagine a Serbian village in a Hollywood movie, but it seems almost impossible to imagine Monica Bellucci and Johnny Depp together in Serbia. However, it became a reality thanks to the famous Serbian director Emir Kusturica, the founder of the festival of classical Russian music in Serbia. The venue of this international festival is no less amazing. It takes place in the ethnographic village of Kustendorf, built a few years earlier by the mentioned past master Emir Kusturica.

The unique modern village is located in the vicinity of Mokra Gora near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. At first, it was believed that the village was created for Kusturica's film "Life as a Miracle", shot here in 2004. And only a frank interview with Emir revealed the backstory of this ambitious project, rooted in the director's distant past. He had dreamed of having his own town since the war. Emir was determined to build a comfortable place to live and master all the arts: to learn how to make movies, to listen to good music, to draw pictures, or even to create ceramic objects in the traditional manual way. As the talented director has always brought everything to perfection, the village of Emir Kusturica under the German name Kustendorf turned out to be magnificent. Each street is named after an outstanding personality, like Nikola Tesla, Ivo Andric, or Ernesto Che Guevara. There are also Bruce Lee and Diego Maradona streets, as well as the streets named after the legendary directors Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman, or famous Russian directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov, who gave name to the whole square. Just like that, Emir Kusturica decided to immortalize many names.

Although the houses in the village look traditional, they are all equipped up-to-date, made of environmentally friendly materials. Thus, the local life is not just great but also really fabulous.