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Convinced that the huge man was interested in his statuette, Mujic said he resolved that next time he went to the bathroom he would turn and say: "Here, take the damn Bear, but let me do my business in peace." He didn't need to. Festival organizers explained that the "stalker" was his personal bodyguard
-- and that all of the stars got one. Now, two months later, next to porcelain figurines of a roaring lion and a sitting dog, the Silver Bear statuette decorates a shelf in Mujic's living room. Nazif still takes apart old cars and refrigerators in his front yard to sell as scrap, but he also cruises Roma settlements and gives speeches on the importance of going to school. Mujic has received a thousand-euro donation from the municipality and a few piles of brick for a new house
-- reward for the glory he brought to the community. Perhaps the biggest gift: a decent set of dentures, paid for by a Sarajevo butcher. They'll be ready later this month. Would Mujic consider a career in movies? Yes, he said, "except in porn." "It was a fairy tale," Mujic said, sipping his coffee and watching his 4-year-old daughter Sandra driving the Silver Bear
-- which she named "Teddy" -- around the house in her plastic doll stroller. Mujic's wife, Senada Alimanovic, watched the award ceremony on TV back at home, but
she finds the whole story about her movie-star husband less romantic. "What did Teddy really bring us?" she asked while holding the couple's youngest child, an 8-month-old boy named Danis, after the director, in her lap. "The fridge is empty. I have never been rich and I do not need a fortune but just normal living conditions for my children," she said.
''Maybe less of a dump of a home." "Slowly," her husband replied. "When Danis sells the movie, he said we will get a share and we will move somewhere. "He would never lie."
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