February 19, 2018 10:57 pm | Updated February 20, 2018 06:41 pm IST - Sarajevo
In this file photo taken on February 16, 2013, Bosnian actor Nazif Mujic poses backstage with his Silver Bear award for Best Actor for the movie “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker” during the awards ceremony of the 63rd Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin.
Bosnian Roma actor Nazif Mujic, who won a Silver Bear acting award for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker , at the Berlin Film Festival in 2013, has died aged 48, following a descent into extreme poverty despite his film success. The actor had been suffering from ill health in recent months.
Mujic in January said he had sold his acting trophy online for €4,000 because he could no longer afford to feed his family.
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