MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. The seventieth birthday will be celebrated with friends, Serbian film director Emir Kusturica told TASS.

"I am turning seventy years old. But I can say I feel myself as in 55. I feel myself physically so because I go in for sports a lot and mentally - because I am writing and preparing for filming. I did not make any movies for a very long period but I am doing one of my best movies in Russia now, which will be based on the Dostoevsky’s work," Kusturica said.

The film director has never celebrated his birthdays with friends and this year will be an exception, he added.