From the screenplay, story, themes, national divisions, aesthetics, direction to the budget and cost. There were no compromises on any level and in any phase of the show’s production. In his article for Blic he wrote that he didn’t want to compromise on any part of the show’s creation: 'Shadows over Balkan is a piece for which I tried to make no compromises. Following the traces of the committed crimes, the inspector starts looking for relic with one goal in mind – to remove it from Belgrade and prevent more innocent deaths. He realizes that there are people who are ready to do anything to have it in their possession and is sucked into the entangled web of crime of which all the obscure interest groups from the Balkans from that time are part of the Russian White army of general Vrangel, the secret police of the Soviet Union (OGPU and NKVD), Black Hand, IMRO, Yugoslav communists, the underbelly of Belgrade and secret society called Thule. Inspector Tanasijević soon realizes that the cause of the frequent eerie events, which are beginning to grow in number by the day, is an ancient relic – Holy Lance (with which Jesus was pierced through on the cross) – to which mystical powers are ascribed.

The plot of the first season starts with a very peculiar and brutal murder which occurs at a costume ball where most of the Belgrade's social elite is gathered. Slivnički monastery and Bukovo, Macedonia

Senke nad balkanom sezona 1 epizoda 1