Nazif Mujić

Nazif Mujić (born November 10, 1970 in Svatovac near Lukavac , Yugoslavia ; † February 18, 2018 ibid) was a Bosnian scrap collector who lived in poverty and played himself in the film From the Life of a Scrap Collector .

life and career

In the 2013 feature film From the Life of a Scrap Collector , he played himself as a member of the Roma minority collecting and selling scrap metal to feed his family. For the film he received the Silver Bear for best actor at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival . The film showed his difficult life, for example his problems paying the doctor's bill of 500 euros for his wife's life-support surgery, or how he separates scrap with an ax . In his homeland it was speculated that the film made him wealthy; his fee was only around 1300 euros for 26 days of shooting.

In November 2013, Mujic returned to Berlin as an asylum seeker and found accommodation with his family in a refugee home in Berlin-Gatow . However, he was supposed to be deported after the responsible immigration authorities classified him as an “ economic refugee ” and rejected his application for asylum. Beginning in February 2014 became his deportation under toleration suspended until February 25, 2014. He returned to Bosnia with his family in June 2014. In early 2017 it became known that Mujić had sold the Silver Bear trophy to pay off debts. He initially offered it on the Internet for € 5000. An innkeeper in his hometown Svatovac, who said he wanted to help Mujić, was awarded the contract for € 4,000.

Mujic was diabetic and dependent on insulin , and most recently lived in poverty with his family in Bosnia. He tried to feed his family with his wife and three children (one son, two daughters) by collecting junk, from which he earned the equivalent of around € 3.50 per day. The day before he was found dead at home, he looked healthy. In January 2018, he tried unsuccessfully to find a solution to his financially precarious situation in Germany. Most recently he wanted to travel to the Berlinale 2018 .

Web links

• Nazif Mujić in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zoran Solomun: Nazif and the Silver Bear - Episode 1: Visit to the scrap dealer . SWR2 broadcast “Tandem”, January 8, 2018, p. 5; accessed on February 19, 2018 (pdf; 213 kB). The year of birth 1960 is now considered a misprint in the following source: Dobitnik “Srebrnog medveda” Nazif Mujić odustao od azila u Nemačkoj. In: Blic.rs . November 26, 2015, accessed February 18, 2018 (Serbian). 
2. ↑ 2013 Silver Bear winner died impoverished . ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vorarlberg Online , February 18, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2018. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Nazif Mujic - Berlinale winner will not be deported. In: Berliner Zeitung . February 7, 2014, archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; accessed on February 19, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Mirsad Čamdžić, Zoran Arbutina: Once red carpet and back . Deutsche Welle , March 1, 2013, accessed February 8, 2014.
5. ^ ^{A b} Susanne Lenz: Berlinale winner Nazif Mujic: How a film goes on in life . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 2, 2014, accessed on February 19, 2018.
6. ↑ ARD Tagesthemen from February 5, 2014
7. ↑ Winner receives tolerance - The Berlinale fights for Nazif Mujic. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , February 6, 2014, archived from the original on February 8, 2014 ; accessed on February 19, 2018 . 
8. ^ Nazif Mujic returns to Bosnia with his family . dpa article in: Der Tagesspiegel , June 5, 2014, accessed on February 19, 2018.
9. ↑ Lack of money: Actor Mujic sold the Silver Bear . orf.at , January 7, 2017, accessed February 19, 2018.
10. ↑ 2013 Silver Bear winner Mujic died impoverished . orf.at , February 19, 2018, accessed February 19, 2018.