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‘Operation Sabre’ Creators On Revealing A “Bigger Truth” About The Post-Milošević Era & Why The Show’s Serbian Premiere Had To Be Pushed Back Six Months – Canneseries


Beta Films' Operation Sabre creators have talked Serbian society, Slobodan Milošević and why Canneseries caused the show's premiere to be delayed.

EXCLUSIVE: The creative team behind Canneseries competition show Operation Sabre wanted to tell a “bigger truth” through their drama about the assassination of Serbia ‘s first pro-democracy prime minister, an event that remains raw in the public psyche. No undertaking to tell the story of the killing of Zoran Đinđić in 2003 had been taken via TV drama, they told Deadline in the week leading up to the Cannes confab, and so they wanted to use scripted narrative devices to go beyond just this single event for the show being distributed by German major Beta Films. But the end result has reaped rewards with Beta jumping aboard to send the story global and Canneseries selecting in competition alongside the likes of European co-pro This is not Sweden, Newen-backed Moresnet and Brazil’s Living on a Razor’s Edge.

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