Operation Sabre (Sablja)

Operation Sabre (original Serbian title Sablja) is a one-season, eight-episode Serbian political drama and historical crime miniseries from 2024. It tells of Belgrade in 2003, after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić throws the country into turmoil, and of the police operation of the same name that followed. A Serbian-German-Bulgarian co-production, its episodes run between 44 and 65 minutes.

The story is seen through a journalist, a police officer and a criminal, and frequent flashbacks shed light on Serbia's political period from 2000 to 2003 and on the investigation into the part played by the Zemun clan and the Special Operations Unit. The cast includes Dragan Mićanović, Izudin Bajrović, Sergej Trifunović, Jasna Đuričić, Ljubomir Bandović, Milica Gojković, Tihana Lazović, Marko Grabež and Marko Marković.

Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić directed it and wrote the script with Maja Pelević, with whom they had earlier worked on the RTS series Jutro će promeniti sve. The broadcast planned for 24 February 2024 was postponed so that the series could enter festivals. Its first two episodes were shown at Canneseries, where the entire cast won an award for ensemble acting, and the regional premiere took place at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival. It aired on RTS 1 from 2 to 24 November 2024.