Senad Bašić

Acting

Senad Bašić

Born 1962-08-26 · Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia

Acting credits

Unexpected Walk poster
8.0

Moved by his love for his girlfriend Senka, Senad leaves his job at the hospital and comes to the besieged city. Avoiding the armed groups roaming the city, he finally finds Senka at her brother Zan's home. Zan happens to be Senad's best friend and is working in the theater as a clown in the production, "Flying Tours of Duty." His girlfriend Senka is working in a hospital but has no time for love. Dejected Senad returns to his flat, only to find it has been demolished by the war. Zan invites Senad to live together with him, his wife and Senka. The rest of the film recounts the tragic events that befall the group and how they face up to them.

Unexpected Walk

1998

Azra poster
5.5

Azra a woman major in the partisan army, who fought the Germans in World War II, returns to her home village, which she helped to liberate. Although her husband was also a high ranking officer, and their goals were united, she finds it much harder to be accepted back into village and family life.

Azra

1988

Facade poster
NR

Ivan is a young painter employed by a well-known city company. Aware the embezzlement that his boss commits through his paintings, Ivan decides to take him with the old man to the city inspector to whom this last case is revealed. At the celebration of the company that was declared the company of the year, Jadranko Granula, Ivan's boss decides to promote Ivana to the ranks of his close associates. However, the process of initiation catches Ivan unprepared, when he realizes that he killed the inspector with by which he prepared a conspiracy.

Facade

2021

Body Complete poster
NR

Austrian journalist asks her editor to send her to Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to investigate disappearance of girl.

Body Complete

2012

Byzantine Empire '88 poster
NR

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Milan Bilbija, starring Senad Bašić, Snježana Martinović and Stojan ‘Stole’ Aranđelović.

Byzantine Empire '88

1988

Audition poster
6.0

A cult stage play from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, which involves the professor and the gallery of grotesque candidates devoid of any talent who applied for entrance exams.

Audition

1985

The Perfect Circle poster
7.0

An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.

The Perfect Circle

1997

After the Battle poster
NR

A Bosnian TV war drama based on true events.

After the Battle

1997

Warchild poster
6.4

Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family.

Warchild

2006

It's Hard to Be Nice poster
7.0

Story about a forty-something Sarajevo taxi driver named Fudo (Saša Petrović) who decides to take control of his own destiny. Fudo doesn't earn much, so he supplements his income by offering tips to the local criminal syndicate and turning a blind eye to their nefarious dealings. One day, after offering a particularly bad bit of advice to a violent gangster, Fudo is badly beaten. When Fudo's wife Azra (Daria Lorenci) discovers what has happened, she decides to take the couple's infant son and move out. Now determined to win his wife back and restore peace in the home, Fudo decides to go straight. But cleaning up his act isn't going to be easy, because after borrowing enough cash from black market dealer Sejo (Emir Hadžihafizbegović) to purchase a van and then refusing to aid him in any underhanded dealings, the only person willing to cut him any slack is the sympathetic Azra.

It's Hard to Be Nice

2007

The Shooter poster
NR

A drama set in a war-torn Sarajevo.

The Shooter

1998

And This Will Pass, Too... poster
8.0

Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go to the river. On the bank of the Sava river meets an old friend, a former captain in love with the river. Accepting new way of life, isidor becomes a different man. But it comes terrifying wartime.Yugoslavia was occupied, the terror begins. Isidor is witnessed changes and in him growing need to resist the atrocities of the invaders. He refuses to flee with his family from Belgrade, it becomes illegal brave, little hero of invisible front.

And This Will Pass, Too...

1985

Fuse poster
6.3

Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.

Fuse

2003

Estrellita poster
6.0

A widow grieves, discovers her deceased spouse's secret, and builds a relationship with a talented boy who used to play the violin with her husband in a local bar.

Estrellita

2007

The Tour poster
6.8

Year 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.

The Tour

2008

Sabina K. poster
6.2

Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.

Sabina K.

2015

Across the border poster
7.0

Turin 1993. The architect Agnese is called to the home for war veterans where her ailing father lives. The doctor at the home has left his guest, a Bosnian refugee, on night duty with her father. The commanding officer of the veterans home, a colonel, has discovered the undocumented refugee, Reuf, and has had him arrested. Agnese, who would rather not get involved with refugees, becomes better acquainted with Reuf and is drawn into events which eventually take her to Bosnia. On this journey, she begins to recall her childhood directly after WWII. Experiences made during the two wars converge and the wheel of history turns, without failing to leave its mark.

Across the border

2004

Days and Hours poster
7.7

Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. When Fuke's car refuses to start, Fuke has to stay over in their house. He meets a lot of old friends and neighbors there.

Days and Hours

2004

The Golden Apple and Nine Peacocks poster
NR

The main subject of the Bosnian folk tale “The Golden Apple and Nine Peacocks” is love between two young people. But it is not any kind of love, but the true one, pure in which both sides are ready for various renunciations and concessions, just to be with their loved one.

The Golden Apple and Nine Peacocks

1987

Comanche Territory poster
6.2

Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.

Comanche Territory

1997

Quiet Days in Sarajevo poster
9.0

Sarajevo, 1995. Senka, a young actress, misses her boyfriend, Camac, a soldier in the Bosnian army who is often away fighting. Despite everything, she continues to go with her brother-in-law to the theater to perform in a play.

Quiet Days in Sarajevo

2003

It Will Be... poster
NR

A Bosnian stage play about local guest workers who returned from Germany.

It Will Be...

1990

My Brother Aleksa poster
7.0

The story of poet Aleksa Santic, visionary and romanticist, great loser in private life. The poet was born in strict patriarchal, rich trading family from Mostar, in conservative social environment, in controversial times in the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. As a young man, he falls in love with the Slavonian girl, Anka Tomlinovic, daughter of poor photographer, leaving her under pressure of his family. Later, he meets Zorka Solina, young and rich girl from Mostar who, again because of the interests of her family, leaves the poet. In his mature years, Aleksa Santic engages himself passionately in social and political life of his age. Disappointments, poverty, sickness and loneliness follow. And the certainty of early death. His older brother tells the story of poet's life, while he is dying.

My Brother Aleksa

1991

Bosnian Pot poster
10.0

Faruk Sego, a failed Bosnian writer facing deportation from Austria, must prove that he has made a cultural contribution to Austrian society. His last chance is an off-theatre troupe that can stage a play he wrote as a young man. Faruk's reluctant return to the theatre will force him to realise what is truly important in life.

Bosnian Pot

2023