Shanghai, 27 June 2025. Beta Film celebrates a landmark success in Shanghai, winning the Best Foreign TV Series Award for the Serbian thriller Operation Sabre. The series is based on true events – the assassination of the Serbian Prime Minister in 2003 – and the ensuing investigation that marked a turning point in the nation's history. The internationally acclaimed Magnolia Best International TV Series Award was previously won by the television triumph Game of Thrones.

 This Standout Production was created by the combined forces of Goran Stanković (Morning Changes Everything, Bad Blood) and Vladimir Tagić (Children of Evil, Morning Changes Everything) which  created and directed Operation Sabre and wrote the scripts together with Dejan Prćić, Maja Pelević, and Marjan Alčevs.

The Series features highly acclaimed Serbian Actors. Dragan Mićanović (Debt to the Sea, Emergency Center) stars as Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, as well as to Milica Gojkovic (Besa, Black Sun) as young journalist Danica. Police inspectors Ljuba, Feđa Štukan (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, A Perfect Day), and Boris, Ljubomir Bandovic (Skin), young criminal Uroš is portrayed by up-and-coming actor Lazar Tasić (Tunnel).

Operation Sabre is produced by This and That Productions (Snezana van Houwelingen) in co-production with Agitprop (Martichka Bozhilova) for Radio Television of Serbia. Beta Film handles international sales.