Dejan Aćimović

Dejan Aćimović — Biography

Dejan Aćimović is an actor and director who has worked in Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian cinema. His directorial debut, Je li jasno, prijatelju? (2000), brought him the Golden Arena for best supporting actor at the Pula Film Festival. International audiences know him best as Cenga in Esma's Secret (Grbavica, 2006), the film about the aftermath of the Bosnian War that won the Golden Bear in Berlin.

Born in Čapljina, he has worked on screen since the mid-1980s. His early credits, beginning with the television film Putovanje u Vučjak (1986), include Čaruga (1991), Vukovar se vraća kući (1994), The Peacemaker (1997) and Bogorodica (1999). In the 2000s his parts included Vojvoda Miso in Remake (2003), Begović in The Horseman (2003), a Croat corporal in Mathilde and a master of ceremonies in Infection. He went on to play Mile in 72 Days (2010) and Jovan in Halima's Path (2012).

He kept directing too: after his first film he made I Have to Sleep, My Angel (2007) and Anka. He has continued acting in later films such as The Parade (2011), The Constitution (2016) and Bosnian pot (2023).