Željko Senečić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Željko Senečić

Croatian film and television production designer, film director and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1933

Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2018

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Željko Senecic (18 January 1933 – 2 January 2018) was a Croatian film and television production designer, film director and screenwriter. Senecic 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 Senecic 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).Senecic 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 (Dogadaj, 1969; directed by Vatroslav Mimica) and The House (Kuca, 1975; directed by Bogdan Žižic).
Senecic 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 (Dubrovacki suton, 1999).