Beta Film has acquired international distribution rights to Serbian crime thriller 'Operation Sabre' ('Sablja') about the assassination of the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Ðindic. The eight-hour series - selected for Canneseries' Long Form Competition - is created and directed by Goran Stankovic and Vladimir Tagic. The duo already collaborated on 'Morning Changes Everything' and wrote the new show alongside Dejan Prcic, Maja Pelevic, and Marjan Alcevs.
Heading back to March 12, 2003, Stankovic and Tagic show the aftermath of the killing that threw the whole country into chaos - only one year after the beginning of the trial against former president Slobodan Miloševic, indicted in 1999 for war crimes. Ðindic, who served as PM from 2001, following a stint as mayor of Belgrade, advocated pro-democratic reforms. He was also one of the co-leaders of the opposition to Miloševic's administration.
