A disgraced Trotskyist returns to beg the Party for mercy — but at what cost to his soul?
Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestThe year is 1934. Bogdan Dragović is released from prison. He is greeted by a festive lunch at the house of his father-in-law Vukasin Katic. His wife Milena is looking forward to re-establishing family relations, after five years in prison due to her communist orientation. Bogdan's friend from the First World War and agent of the Comintern, Petar Bajevic, comes to the festive lunch and tells Bogdan that he has to go to Paris on a party assignment. Five years later, Milena is in an emotional relationship with Peter, Bogdan returns to Belgrade from political emigration at the dawn of World War II, and Vladimir, Milena's and Bogdan's son, together with his girlfriend Zora and friends from college, including Bora's son Miško goes to communist student protests against the government. Vladimir is under arrest. Milena asks for help from Bora Pub, assistant minister and old friend.
Bogdan Dragović has returned from emigration, trying, for the sake of his son Vladimir, to re-establish ties with the Communist Party from which he was expelled as a Trotskyist.
Acting
Goran Bogdan's crumbling dignity in every bureaucratic humiliation.
Writing
Dialogue so precise it feels like a period indictment.
Production
Yugoslav-era institutional rot made viscerally claustrophobic.
Creator
Goran Šušljik
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series excavates the 1950s Yugoslav 'Informbiro' purges, when Tito's regime expelled thousands of suspected Stalinists — a national trauma rarely dramatized.
Creator Goran Šušljik cast himself as the bureaucrat who destroys Bogdan's life; he reportedly kept his own director's chair facing away from himself during their scenes.
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