Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, 1995 Best Foreign Film at Boston Society of Film Critics, 1997 ... The competition feature Life is a Miracle (Zivot je cudo) marks the return of Emir Kusturica in Cannes, one of the rare directors, along with Francis Ford Coppola, Bille August and Shohei Imamura, to have been bestowed two Palme d'Or awards: the first one in 1985 for When Father Was Away on Business and again 10 years later for Underground. In 1989, the Sarajevo-born filmmaker also won the Best Director Award for The Time of the Gypsies. 1941. Belgrade. Marko, communist activist let his friend Blacky enter the Party. But German invade Yugoslavia and the two friends will share their time between acts of resistance and very profitable traffics. They will share also beautiful Natalja, an actress whom a Nazi officer "protects". During the conflit, Marko will arrange to lock up Blacky and its clan in the basement of an house of Belgrade. Thus will he be able to keep Natalja for himself only. In 1945, he will voluntarily silence the people of the basement who manufacture weapons for Resistance that the country was free...