The second season of the most popular regional TV series in the exclusive production of the United Media had its premiere at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival, the company said in a statement.

The authors and actors walked down the red carpet at the start of the fourth Festival’s night.

“Two years ago we presented the first season of the series, and the Festival brought us luck. Later, we had a lot of success,” Dragan Bjelogrlic, the screenwriter and actor said.

He added his ambition was to make “something different from the usual productions. At the time, I wasn't optimistic, didn't expect it would be so well accepted, but that happened. Who liked the first part would like the second for sure.”

The series is set in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes during the period between two world wars. The story follows the life and work of two Belgrade police inspectors.

In an interview with N1, Bjelogric said that ” the second season starts with the 1933 New Years eve, ahead of the assassination of the King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic. That ‘s a political background of the series.”

“Besides,” he said, “like in the first season we also have a few parallel stories which meet at the end. I'm convinced that those were the years which in many ways determined the 20th century, especially the situation in the Balkan and that all we live through today has roots in that period.”

Nova S TV, which is a part of United Media along with N1 TV, will start broadcasting the new episodes of the Shadows over Balkan in October.