
Shadows over the Balkans
- 2017 – 2026
- Returning Series
- Crime · Drama · War & Politics
- ~1h / ep
- 3 seasons
- 7.7/10
A historical fiction drama and thriller set in the turbulent period of the late 1930s in the Balkans as a place where high politics, local interests, capital and crime all merge together.
Latest: Season 3 · 2026
View all seasonsThe third season brings even more mystery, exciting plots, and power struggles, set in the turbulent period before World War II, where the fates of the characters intertwine between politics, secrets, and inexplicable events.
E1. Episode 1
Apr 4, 2026 · 92m
The year is 1938. While Europe dances on the edge of the abyss, a dangerous web is woven in Belgrade around the ratification of the Concordat. Count Ciano and Milan Stojadinović shape the fate of the Balkans, unaware that in eastern Serbia, at the foot of mystical Rtanj, a wrath is awakening that threatens to set the country on fire. Horrific events in an isolated monastery become weapons in the hands of powerful figures from the "Conspiracy," an organization led by Zlata Mirić and the mysterious Prizrenac, which announces the end of the old order. Amidst the turmoil, the Minh family, owners of the Rtanj mines, try to preserve their property and peace, but upcoming conspiracies pull them into the center of a conflict they cannot control. While secret societies and conspirators mobilize in Belgrade's corridors, Tane fights his own ghosts, waiting for the return of the only man he trusts - Stanko Pletikosić. Stanko is released from prison into a world he no longer recognizes.
E2. Episode 2
Apr 9, 2026 · 59m
Belgrade is shaken by the news of the death of Julius Minh, the owner of the mines on Rtanj. Although the scene in hotel "Moskva" suggests suicide, Tane and young Čeda Diklić suspect that the hanging is only a bloody performance. Lavrentiy Beria sends Mustafa Golubić on his most dangerous mission yet—a return to Belgrade. In a world where no one trusts anyone, even within the Party, Mustafa must track down a mysterious group of conspirators supported by foreign powers. At the same time, in Paris, Josip Broz Tito awaits news from Moscow regarding his appointment as General Secretary of the KPJ and meets Maja Davidović. The recently released Stanko Pletikosić joins the investigation, almost against his will, realizing that in the four years of his absence the city has changed, but the atrocities have remained the same.
E3. Episode 3
Apr 10, 2026 · 60m
While debts to Danilo Tomasović are paid in blood in the port of Rijeka, Belgrade becomes the scene of a brutal struggle for supremacy. Stanko Pletikosić, in search of answers and through cooperation with Krojač, arrives at discoveries that will change the power dynamics in the Belgrade underworld. After the death of the man suspected of murdering Julius Minh, Tane and Čeda's investigation hits a wall. At the same time, in the relationship between Zlata Mirić and Mustafa Golubić, passion and espionage intertwine in a dangerous dance, while Mustafa slowly gains the trust of the conspirators. Tane, haunted by visions and exhausted by the investigation, seeks help from Vanuca, who takes him to the edge between reality and nightmare, where he will have to face the images from the past that haunt him.
E4. Episode 4
Apr 16, 2026 · 57m
Stanko's investigation leads to the discovery that "Rtanj cheese" is only a front for the distribution of a drug that changes the rules of the game in the Belgrade underworld. Stanko must use all his shrewdness to outsmart his enemies, as well as Tomasović, in order to find out who is behind the new goods on the market, while slowly taking over Krojač's place in Jatagan Mala. Tane finds himself in a state of complete breakdown. While visions from the Rtanj tunnels mix with images of political chaos in Belgrade, he realizes that the appearance of new heroin and the mystical ore from the mine are part of the same dark puzzle. On the edge of madness, Tane tries to warn Stanko that the enemy is not only on the street but also in what they cannot see.
E5. Episode 5
Apr 17, 2026 · 61m
Tane, devastated by a new murder, goes with Čeda in search of Dido de Mayo. Marija Oršić arrives in Belgrade, interested in the Minh mine, when we also discover who the new leader of the Belgrade Thule is. Tito tries to find out why Maja Davidović helped him, while Mustafa Golubić further complicates the situation of Prime Minister Stojadinović with an assassination. Although Tomasović is slowly losing patience while trying to understand who is behind the new heroin smuggling operation, Stanko is slowly connecting things and—with Kiro's release from prison—decides on new steps.
E6. Episode 6
Apr 23, 2026 · 58m
Tane wakes up in the hospital; Stanko offers him help to find the people responsible for the murders, as well as for what happened to Čeda. However, after the incident with Simeon, Tane finds out in Glavnjača that his hands are tied and that he will have to solve the case outside the law. With Stanko's help, on the street, Tane arrives at answers he could not reach through a police investigation. Mustafa meets with a foreign agent in Bulgaria, after which the direction of "The Conspiracy" changes abruptly. Tito, after learning what is in the Minh mine, comes to Belgrade and takes steps together with Maja Davidović so that the mine does not fall into the wrong hands; however, he loses Bojana's trust.
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