Dejan Aćimović

Dejan Aćimović — Biography

Dejan Aćimović was born on 20 May 1963 in Čapljina, then part of SFR Yugoslavia and now in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and works as a Bosnian-Croatian actor and director. He began appearing on screen in the mid-1980s with a television film and went on to take regular roles in Croatian and Yugoslav productions through the 1990s, including a small part in the Hollywood film The Peacemaker (1997). In 2000 he made his directing debut with Je li jasno, prijatelju?, a film in which his own supporting performance also won him the Golden Arena Award at the Pula Film Festival. He is internationally best known for playing Cenga in Grbavica (Esma's Secret, 2006), a film about the aftermath of the Bosnian War that won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Later screen credits include Remake, Mathilde and Konjanik (Horseman) in the mid-2000s, followed by 72 Days (2010), The Parade (2011), The Constitution (2016) and Bosnian Pot (2023); he also directed the film I Have to Sleep, My Angel (2007).