Željko Senečić
Nacimiento : 1933-01-18, Zagreb, Croatia
Muerte : 2018-01-01
Historia
Željko Senečić was a Croatian film and television production designer, film director and screenwriter.
Senečić studied 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; directed by Volker Schlöndorff and partially filmed in Zagreb, with Senečić credited as production co-designer) and classics of Croatian cinema such as Rondo (1966), One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (Tko pjeva zlo ne misli, 1970).
Senečić won four Golden Arena for Best Production Design awards, making him one of the most decorated production designers in Croatian cinema.
He also co-wrote screenplays for films An Event (Događaj, 1969; directed by Vatroslav Mimica) and The House (Kuća, 1975; 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 (Zavaravanje, 1998) and Dubrovnik Twilight (Dubrovački suton, 1999).
Himself
A documentary about favorite shopping destination for Yugoslavs: Trieste in Italy.
Director
A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
Writer
A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.
Director
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 should he use his weapon anyway.
Writer
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 should he use his weapon anyway.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Writer
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 cold and calculated demeanor, Stella is also a grieving parent. During the ride, the two develop a special relationship.
Director
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 cold and calculated demeanor, Stella is also a grieving parent. During the ride, the two develop a special relationship.
Writer
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 the Slavonian plain, all these things finding their expression in his paintings that start to attract the attention of experts...
Director
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 the Slavonian plain, all these things finding their expression in his paintings that start to attract the attention of experts...
Production Design
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Slikar
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Production Design
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 Milker sense a sensational story about UFOs and start snooping around in the area with help of pilot "Bird" McNamara. Inspired by the suspiciously rigorous isolation of the whole area around the crash point and cases of an unknown disease they have a closer look at the military's activities...
Art Direction
El mayor Wright (Telly Savalas) es un hombre duro y violento con una fe y lealtad a su país fuera de toda duda. Su misión actual consiste en desbaratar un complot alemán cuyo objetivo es llevar al poder a un poderoso grupo de generales nazis que actúan en nombre del III Reich. El comando lo forman doce presidiarios que sólo tienen dos posibilidades: la libertad o la muerte. Su objetivo: asaltar y destruir un convoy, que es el centro de operaciones de los conspiradores.
Art Direction
Después de regresar de una misión en el norte de Italia, el mayor Wright recibe la orden de reclutar a un pelotón de soldados sentenciados a muerte o a cadena perpetua, para una misión suicida tras las líneas enemigas. Deben entrar en un monasterio francés para destruir un gas neurotóxico mortal que los nazis quieren utilizar en un nuevo misil de largo alcance. Además deberán rescatar a los seis brillantes científicos de los territorios ocupados que están siendo obligados a trabajar en el proyecto. Wright sabe que muchos no regresarán para contarlo.
Production Design
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 sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
Art Direction
Production Design
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
Production Design
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 things are more complicated than he first thought.
Writer
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.
Production Design
Recreación libre de los últimos días de la vida de Rodolfo de Habsburgo, heredero del trono austro-húngaro, centrada en su vida sexual. En contra de la voluntad de su padre, el emperador Francisco José, sus días transcurren en el libertinaje, en una permanente fiesta donde abundan los escándalos y las orgías; además, mantiene un largo amorío con una mujer de la nobleza rural húngara, muy inferior en clase a la suya, María Vetsera, junto con quien muriera 1889. Existen dos teorías sobre este suceso, conocido como el "incidente de Mayerling": por un lado, que se trata de un pacto suicida entre amantes, por otro, que se trató de un asesinato de corte político.
Scenic Artist
Middle-aged couple is going back from shopping in Trieste. They decide to spend the night in a romantic motel “Moonlight”, but there, their trouble will begin…
Writer
Middle-aged couple is going back from shopping in Trieste. They decide to spend the night in a romantic motel “Moonlight”, but there, their trouble will begin…
Writer
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 thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.
Costume Design
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.
Production Design
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Set Designer
El cadáver del reportero Gregory Moore es encontrado en una plaza de Praga y llevado a la morgue local. Pero Moore esta actualmente vivo, atrapado dentro de su cuerpo muerto y desesperadamente recordando como la desaparición de su bonita novia, que esta relacionada con una terrorífica conspiración de depravación. ¿Puede un reportero sin signos visibles de vida resolver este perverso puzzle antes de su última existencia?
Production Design
El cadáver del reportero Gregory Moore es encontrado en una plaza de Praga y llevado a la morgue local. Pero Moore esta actualmente vivo, atrapado dentro de su cuerpo muerto y desesperadamente recordando como la desaparición de su bonita novia, que esta relacionada con una terrorífica conspiración de depravación. ¿Puede un reportero sin signos visibles de vida resolver este perverso puzzle antes de su última existencia?
Set Designer
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 that's when she accepts Vlatko's courtship without being able to see his self-interested nature.
Production Design
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, Perica's father doesn't notice anything, but wants to marry off Perica's aunt, so he invites the man to their residence. After multiple rendezvous, Perica's father becomes aware of Fulir's attempts to seduce his wife.
Production Design
Unos días antes del final de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), en un campo de prisioneros alemanes situado en Canadá, dos presuntos desertores son juzgados por sus oficiales y condenados a morir fusilados.
Production Design
Un grupo de prisioneros de un campo de concentración está siendo torturado constantemente por su kapo. Como están demasiado débiles para enfrentarse a él, eligen al prisionero más fuerte del grupo y le comienzan a dar parte de sus raciones.
Production Design
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.
Writer
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.
Production Design
Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
Set Designer
The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.
Production Design
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.
Set Designer
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, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.
Production Design
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.
Set Designer
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, Ivan and Sonja, live in an old woman's apartment. She is sick and the couple hopes that she will die soon, so that they may inherit her apartment; Segment "Poslije predstave" (After the Play): A husband and a wife lose the key to their apartment and have to spend the night in a hotel. The experience is wonderful and renews their feelings for each other, if only for a night.
Art Direction
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.
Art Direction
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 not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
Art Direction
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.
