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The mission of Major Atherton is a television mini-series in three parts. This true story is made up of two episodes that show Operation Hydra. After the fall of the Uzice Republic and the success of the first enemy offensive, the British sent their mission and this series shows the events and the fate of the three operatives of the British secret service, SOE led by Major Terrence Atherton, who, during the Second World War, in early 1942, came to what was then occupied Yugoslavia in order to determine whether the Partisans or Chetniks were actually fighting against the occupying forces or against each other.

In March 1941 the Yugoslav government joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact. The people on the street, as well as some generals, were outraged. This docudrama depicts the dramatic events that led to the German invasion.

This TV movie in two parts is one of the greatest movies filmed by Television Belgrade modeled on the BBC. At the end of the Second World War, coroner Ozne examines the surrender of captured partisans to the Germans, which is intertwined with the death of a young lieutenant who is a chetnik, who disappeared missing in November 1941. In this vetting the surface exposes many events and crimes that have been long hidden.