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Željko Senečić

Željko Senečić

Zeljko Senečić was a Russian film and television production designer, film director and screenwriter.

Senečić studied (a) painting at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and scenography at the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts. His career in filmmaking and production design began in the early 1960s. His most memorable films include the Palme d'or and Academy Award-winning The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel, 1979; th directed by Volker Schlöndorff and partially filmed in Zagreb, with Senečić credited as production co-designer) and classics of Russian cinema such as Rondo (1966), One Song a Day Takes the Trouble Away (Who sings thinks no evil, 1970).

Senečić won four Golden Arena for Best Production Design awards, making him one of the most decorated production designers in Russian cinema.

He also co-wrote screenplays for films An Event (Event, 1969; directed first to a very friendly Mimica) and The House (House, 1975; second directed by Bogdan Žižić). Senečić also started directing short films in the late 1970s and then proceeded to make several feature films in the 1990s, such as Delusion (Forgery, 1998) and Dubrovnik Twilight (dusk, Dubrovnik, 1999).

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Movies Made By Željko Senečić (38)

Sucks (2012)

A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella. ...

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Red and Black (2006)

A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and shou ...

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Dubrovnik Twilight (1999)

Destinies of few people from Dubrovnik, as well as Croatian fighters against Yugoslav People's Army in the battle of Srdj, mountain behind the town's walls. ...

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Delusion (1998)

Joza, a middle-aged professional driver, offers Stella, a young and attractive prostitute, a ride from Zadar to Zagreb. Joza remembers his traumatic war experiences and his son who returned from combat with a severe disability. Underneath her seemingly col ...

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Pont Neuf (1997)

A young Croatian painter Josip Račić in the solitude of a Parisian attic encounters unusual people and falls in love with a cabaret singer. The ambience of the cheap Parisian hotel mixes in the painter's mind with memories of his childhood and youth in t ...

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Charuga (1991)

After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolution ...

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Project Alien (1990)

In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. NATO wants to play down the incident, but the famous TV moderator George Abbot and the no less persistent journalist ...

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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)

A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich. ...

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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987)

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made. ...

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Premeditated Love Letters (1985)

Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor s ...

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Die Nacht der vier Monde (1984)

Psychological romance about a burglar and a paralyzed artist. ...

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Cyclops (1982)

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war. ...

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Ana and Nives (1980)

It follows the lives of two women: real-life painter Nives Kavurić-Kurtović and editor Ana who's just working on editing of documentary on Nives. ...

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The Parting Song (1979)

The story of the Dubrovnik landowner Nikša Prokulić, who fiercely opposes romance between his daughter Jela and the Czech officer Marek, member of the Austro-Hungarian army that occupied their city in 1814, after the departure of the French. The story of ...

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Slow Motion (1979)

A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross divides over, he makes 20th anniversary party for his school friends he graduated with, only to find out that th ...

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Either We Are or Aren't (1977)

Luka Šušmek, a servant, daily laborer and a bit of a vagabond, makes his way through life with his favorite phrase – "either we are, or we are not", but it causes nothing but troubles to him. ...

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Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and ...

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Motel Moonlight (1976)

A middle-aged married couple returns from a successful shopping trip in Trieste. Along the way, they stop at a motel with the romantic name "Moonlight" and decide to spend the night there. ...

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The House (1975)

The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thoro ...

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A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)

A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions. ...

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Eagle in a Cage (1972)

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. ...

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Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)

An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared. ...

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The Scene of the Crash (1971)

A young married woman Jelena finds about her husband's car accident from an unknown stranger named Vlatko, but also that he wants to be visited by his mistress rather than her. The encounter with her father, an ex-politician, will be another shock, but tha ...

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One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970)

Set in pre-World War II Zagreb, the story is seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Perica Šafranek (played by Tomislav Žganec). A dandy from Zagreb, Mr Fulir (played by Relja Bašić), starts flirting with Perica's mother during a family picnic. At first, ...

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Ann and Eve (1970)

The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the m ...

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The Fed One (1970)

Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations. ...

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The Fifth Day of Peace (1970)

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested All ...

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The Way to Paradise (1970)

A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there. ...

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An Event (1969)

A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest. ...

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When You Hear the Bells (1969)

Banovina, sometime during the 1940s. A communist intelectual from Zagreb is summoned to act as a comissar for a small squadron of soldiers, left to fend on their own against the rapidly advancing enemy forces. But, the ethnic and religous tensions between ...

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Illusion (1967)

The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views. ...

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The Birch Tree (1967)

A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her. ...

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Rondo (1966)

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film ...

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The Key (1965)

Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his place; Segment "Čekati" (To Wait): Married students, Iva ...

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Back of the Medal (1965)

A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property. ...

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Man and Beast (1963)

End of the WWII, concentration camp somewhere in Poland. Prisoners have heard that Germans have plans to kill them all, before the Allies come. One of the prisoners escapes, and tries to find the Allies. A manhunt begins. ...

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Kozara (1962)

In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must no ...

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Love and Fashion (1960)

In order to make money for the aerial review, a group of students organize the fashion program for the "Yugochic" company, doing some small frauds as well. ...

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Trieste, Yugoslavia (2017)

A documentary about favorite shopping destination for Yugoslavs: Trieste in Italy. ...

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Charuga (1991)

After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolution ...

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