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    KUSTURICA TO MAKE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT URUGUAY'S PRESIDENT

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/728770/kusturica-to-make-documentary-about-uruguays-president.html
    21:41, 9 August, 2013

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS: Acclaimed Serbian filmmaker Emir
    Kusturica plans to make a documentary about the life of Uruguayan
    President Jose Mujica, authorities in the South American country told
    Efe Thursday, reports "Armenpress".

    The project has been tentatively titled "The People's President"
    and will have a $3 million budget, according to Transport and Public
    Works Ministry officials.

    Talks began nine months ago at the filmmaker's initiative and an
    agreement was reached last week in Belgium, where Kusturica met with
    advisors to Transport and Public Works Minister Enrique Pintado.

    Funding for the project, which will use archive footage and planned
    interviews between the director and the leftist president, is to come
    from Uruguayan, Brazilian and Argentine investors.

    Uruguayan weekly Busqueda said Thursday that Argentine production
    company K&S Films also would work on the project and was already
    believed to be compiling archive material for Kusturica.

    The documentary is expected to premiere in December 2014, a month
    after Mujica's successor is elected.

    Jose "Pepe" Mujica, 78, is known for his austere life style.

    The former Tupamaru guerrilla, who spent several years in prison under
    Uruguay's 1973-1985 military regime, currently lives on a modest farm
    on the outskirts of Montevideo with his wife, Sen. Lucia Topolansky.

    The 58-year-old president donates nearly 90 percent of his roughly
    $12,000-per-month salary for the construction of housing for lowincome
    families.

    The Serbian director's films include "Maradona by Kusturica," a
    2008 documentary about the Argentine soccer legend; the 2007 comedy
    "Promise Me This"; and the 1988 comedy/drama "Time of the Gypsies,"
    for which he won the best-director prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

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