Development - SERBIAN - TV Series, Action/Adventure, Thriller
SABRE is an 8-part, hour long, political thrillerfiction series, focusing on a female journalist investigatingthe murder of the Serbian Prime Minister. The country’srecent past presents the backdrop for the main character’ssearch for the truth in a corrupted justice system.
Year of production : 2020 Director(s) : Goran STANKOVIĆ, Vladimir TAGIĆ Writer(s) : Goran STANKOVIĆ, Vladimir TAGIĆ, Maja PELEVIĆ Producer(s) : Snežana VAN HAUVELINGEN (THIS AND THAT PRODUCTIONS)
SABRE is a Political Thriller series based on real events in Serbia, 15 years ago. After the failed assassination of the Prime Minister on the State highway, it looks as if nothing hashappened, at least in the eyes of the public. We find Danica (33) a young reporter on the rise, in the midst of one of her broadcasts, managing to get information using unconventional and radical methods. Nikola (45), a crime police inspector, finds out that the truck driver who blocked the Prime Minister's wayon the highway is a known criminal. The trucker is not arrested due to seemingly late police reaction and the criminal clan immediately starts to prepare for the next assassination attempt. Davor (20), a loyal and rather unexposed clan member is given the task of driving the shooter.The Prime Minister is shot down by a sniper and the country plunges into chaos. The Provisional Government imposes a state of emergency and on a press conference announces that free reporting is forbidden and all information must come fromthem. When Danica realizes that no one wants to write about the true story behind the assassination, she starts her own investigation.The Government launches operation Sabre, during which a number of clan members are being arrested or shot by the police. Nikola finds a number of faults in the official version of the assassination.The clan members, unprepared for this operation and in panic, seek a way to flee the country. Davor tries to settle with the police, when he finds himself involved in kidnapping and brutally killing a cooperating witness. He realizes that he's got nowhere to run.
Country(ies) : SERBIA