Kusturica filmed ' Bridge on the Drina '

Emir Kusturica filmed novel, ' Bridge on the Drina ' Serbian writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature, Ivo Andric, reports Variety.

According to the newspaper, Kusturica has already received support from the Serbian government. Now he is trying to get support from Bosnia. It is reported that Kusturica is planning to build in the Visegrad -scale scenery, recreating the ancient image of the city. About the time of the shooting the picture, the approximate level of funding and the actors who will participate in the project, it is not known.

The book was written in 1945, and in 1961 Andric received the Nobel Prize for her. The central image of the novel, which gave the title product, - the bridge over the river Drina in Visegrad, which is now part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The novel describes the historical period spanning nearly four centuries - since the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, when the territory was part of the city in its composition, and the beginning of the XX century, when, in 1914 was ...

This is - one of the most profound and original works of world literature of the XX century, where legends and stories of the people intertwine with reality, real events and characters of folk tales serve in the same row with the living, concrete -existing people, seen by his contemporaries.