Senad Basic Movies
- 2008
A woman who has lost her faith in her late husband pins her new hopes on a gifted young man in this drama from director Metod Pevec. Dora (Silva Cusin) is a beautiful woman in her mid-forties who had a great talent as a pianist when she was young, but instead of honing her own gifts she helped her husband pursue a career as a concert violinist. After the death of her spouse, Dora discovers he'd been chronically unfaithful to her, and she's no longer sure what to think about the man and his legacy. Rather than sell the rare and valuable instrument her husband played throughout his career, Dora instead gives the violin to Amir (Marko Kovacevik), a gifted but poor youngster from a family of Bosnian expatriates. Amir is grateful for the gift, but his father Izet (Senad Basic) isn't much impressed and mother Sabina (Mediha Musliovic) isn't sure that music will offer much hope for her struggling family. Meanwhile, Amir falls in love with Nina (Ana Temeljotov), a teenage girl studying piano with Dora, and Dora comes face to face with the woman who lured away her husband when she hires Ignacia (Karin Komljanec) to give Amir music lessons. Estrellita -- Pesem za Domov (aka Estrellita) was an official selection at the 2008 Sarajevo Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Silva Cusin, Marko Kovacevic, (more)
- 2007
Summer in the Golden Valley director Srdan Vuletic takes a turn towards more commercial fare with this urban fairy tale about a forty-something Sarajevo taxi driver named Fudo (Sasa Petrovic) who decides to take control of his own destiny. Fudo doesn't earn much simply by shuffling the citizens of Sarajevo from place to place, 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 Lorenco) 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 Hadzihafizbegovic) 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. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sasa Petrovic, Daria Lorenci, (more)
- 2006
Libina Mitevska stars as a mother in search of the daughter that was taken from her when the family was forced into an internment camp during the Bosnian conflict in director Christian Wagner's award-winning family drama. Thirty year-old Senada (Mitevska) is a successful real estate broker and accomplished volleyball player living in the Bosnia and Herzegovina village of Brcko. Though in the surface it would appear as if Senada has everything a woman could want in life, her family has been ripped apart by war and she is haunted by the memories of the daughter that was forcefully taken from her in one of Bosnia's darkest hours. Not only did her marriage to the kindly Samir (Senad Basic) crumble during the conflict that consumed the land, but her daughter Aida was taken from the pair by aid workers and spirited away to an undisclosed location. Convinced that she has located her daughter in the Ulm, Germany, Senada enlists the aid of a sympathetic trafficker named Dzigera (Zdenko Jelcic) in crossing the border and avoiding the radar of local aid worker Mrs. Jandrasko (Katrin Sass). Upon discovering that her daughter has been renamed and is currently being raised by a well-to-do German couple, the desperate mother watches from afar while planning to recover the unsuspecting adolescent who seems to have all but forgotten her turbulent past. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Labina Mitevska, Senad Basic, (more)
Bosnian filmmaker Pjer Zalica makes his feature debut as a writer/director with the dark comedy Gori Vatra (Fuse). It's post-war peacetime during the late '90s in the Bosnian town of Tesanj and the townsfolk are busy preparing for a visit from President Bill Clinton. The town has become overrun with corruption due to the years of war, but they work together over a few days to pretend that everything looks fine from the outside. Crooked cop Mugdim (Izudin Bajrovic) and gangster Velija (Senad Basic) keep the town running with an organized crime scheme; Velija has to pretend that his brothel is really a cultural center. Meanwhile, the former police chief, Zaim (Bogdan Diklic), is thinking about kidnapping Clinton in order to get revenge for the probable death of his son during the war. Fuse won the Silver Leopard award at the 2003 Locarno International Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Enis Beslagic, Bogdan Diklic, (more)
- 1989
A Moslem family in Sarajevo is torn apart by ideological differences during World War II in this emotionally charged social drama. Azra (Dara Dzokic) is a wife whose philandering husband is suspected of collaborating with the Nazis. Her son runs off to join the Resistance, pitting family members against each other. Another story has two brothers fighting on opposite sides of the bloody war, one with the Germans and the other with the partisans. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dara Dzokic, Mladen Nelevic, (more)
