MIPTV Spotlight: Star Media

Star Media’s Richard Sorge: Master Spy follows a Soviet secret agent during WWII who is in Tokyo masquerading as a German journalist.

The project has “compelling intrigue, action and exotic locations,” says Vlad Ryashin, the general producer of Star Media. “Mr. Sorge is not such a well-known figure compared to others of his profession, which makes this series a real revelation and puts him right up there in the top [of the list] with some of the world’s most famous and notorious spies. Everybody loves a good spy story.”

Also from Star Media, Operation Mukhabbat is a love story set in Afghanistan in 1985 during the Soviet occupation. There is also Oriental Sweets, which already has a second season commissioned. “This unusual series is based on a highly original idea,” says Ryashin.