| Alt Name: | Besa |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Creator: | Tony Jordan |
| Screenplay: | Tony Jordan Mladen Matičević Igor Stoimenov |
| Director: | Dušan Lazarević |
| Starring: | Radivoje Bukvić Miloš Timotijević Arben Bajraktaraj |
| Composer: | Nemanja Mosurović |
| Country: | Serbia United Kingdom |
| Language: | Serbian Albanian |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 22 |
| Executive Producer: | Tony Jordan Srđan Šaper Pete Smith Henning Tewes |
| Producer: | Tea Korolija Igor Stoimenov |
| Company: | Adrenalin Production Red planet pictures |
Besa (Serbian: Беса) is a Serbian-British television series produced by Adrenalin and Red Planet Pictures.
Inspired by a true story and from an original idea by Srđan Šaper, the plot follows Uroš, a family man and a businessman from Belgrade who kills the daughter of Dardan, an Albanian drug lord, in a road accident. To atone for her death and in order to protect the lives of his own family, he is forced to start working as a hitman for the Albanian mob.
Besa is an Albanian cultural precept, usually translated as "faith" or "oath", that means "to keep the promise" and "word of honor".[1]
Besa brought together writer/producer Tony Jordan and several Serbian screenwriters and script doctors, as well as international and regional actors, in creating the first TV series in the Adriatic region that compares with the standards of British television drama.[2]
Besa features a mixture of local and international talent, with Taken costars Radivoje Bukvić and Arben Bajraktaraj playing the leads.[3] Director Dušan Lazarević previous credits include Misfits, Vera, Death In Paradise, Silent Witness. The series gathered more than 200 actors from the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia, as well as foreign actors from Albania, United Kingdom and France.
Besa was set up as an international co-production between Adrenalin and Red Planet Pictures. It was filmed for 120 days on numerous attractive locations throughout the Balkans. International sales and Distribution is handled by MBC Studios.
The second season was shot from 2020 to 2021 in Montenegro, Serbia and Estonia.[4] [5]
At FEDIS, the 9th International festival of domestic television series, Besa won the Golden Antenna award for Best TV series produced in Serbia, as well as for Best Music by composer Nemanja Mosurović and Best Photography by the director of photography Igor Šunter.[6]
| Uroš Perić | Radivoje Bukvić | |
| Dardan Berisha | Arben Bajraktaraj | |
| Petrit Koci | Miloš Timotijević | |
| Marija Perić | Lana Barić | |
| Teuta Berisha | Gresa Pallaska | |
| Divna Dukić | Hana Selimović | |
| Mima | Radoslav Milenković | |
| Hashimi | Mensur Safqiu | |
| Luka | Milan Marić | |
| Una Perić | Milica Gojković | |
| Agim Sokoli | Sebastian Cavazza | |
| Skenderi | Selman Jusufi | |
| Boža Perić | Miodrag Krivokapić | |
| Besiana | Elizabeta Brodić | |
| Afrimi | Allmir Suhodolli | |
| Miša | Boris Milivojević | |
| Pavle | Ivan Zarić | |
| Mirko Sandić | Marko Janjić | |
| Premović | Nebojša Dugalić | |
| Driton Berisha | Jon Raci | |
| Todor Lekić | Mima Karadžić | |
| Isa (Skenderi) | Refet Abazi | |
| Ilir Sokoli | Tristan Halilaj | |
| Joni | Slaven Došlo | |
| Enveri | Adrian Aziri | |
| Ivan | Jovo Maksić | |
| Igi | Relja Popović |