--- title: Trezor, a New Slovenian TV Series / I Know What I’ll Be Doing on Sunday Nights date: 2026-09-17T16:17:46Z modified: 2026-09-17T16:17:46Z permalink: "https://www.had.si/blog/en/2026/09/17/trezor-a-new-slovenian-tv-series-i-know-what-ill-be-doing-on-sunday-nights/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 390116 categories: - reflections tags: - reflections - crime drama - hrt - Jana Zupančič - ljubljana - matevž luzar - Nataša Barbara Gračner - Nejc Cijan Garlatti - Petja Labović - psychological thriller - RTCG - rtv slovenija - SKB bank robbery - SKB robbery 2005 - Slovenian crime series - Slovenian television - Slovenian TV series - The Vault - Tina Vrbnjak - trezor - Trezor TV series - english - pll_6aac12aa5257e language: - english post_translations: - pll_6aac12aa5257e featured_image: "https://www.had.si/blog/wp-content/webpc-passthru.php?src=https://www.had.si/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/trezor.jpg&nocache=1" featured_image_alt: trezor timestamp: 2026-09-17T16:17:46Z --- Trezor is a new five-part Slovenian TV series created and directed by Matevž Luzar, a name that probably needs no introduction to Slovenian viewers after Jezero, Leninov park and Dolina rož. This time, he has taken on a story almost everyone in Slovenia remembers: the infamous 2005 robbery of SKB bank safe-deposit boxes in Ljubljana, an event that still raises questions more than twenty years later. But Trezor is not a documentary reconstruction of the robbery, nor is it an attempt to serve viewers yet another theory about who was behind one of the most notorious robberies in Slovenian history. Instead, the series approaches the event from a completely different angle, and that is precisely what makes it interesting. It is a mixture of psychological thriller, crime drama and character study in which the robbery itself is not necessarily the most important part of the story. It is the trigger, the event that changes people’s lives, connects them and at the same time exposes things that had previously remained hidden. For me, that is considerably more interesting than a classic crime series where you spend five episodes trying to guess who the robber was. The SKB safe-deposit box robbery in 2005 was one of those stories that completely occupied Slovenia for a while. The robbers entered the bank’s vault premises in central Ljubljana, overpowered the security guards and broke into hundreds of safe-deposit boxes. Money, gold, jewellery and other valuables disappeared, and the true value of everything that was taken will probably never be known. Perhaps even more interesting, however, was the question of what exactly had been stored inside some of those boxes. That is, after all, one of the reasons people use a bank safe-deposit box. You put something there that you do not necessarily want everyone else to know exists. But what happens when somebody steals something that you officially never had? Do you go to the police and report it missing? Do you explain exactly what was taken, or do you remain silent because explaining where those things came from might be considerably more uncomfortable than losing them in the first place? The cast includes Tina Vrbnjak, Jana Zupančič, Nejc Cijan Garlatti, Petja Labović and Nataša Barbara Gračner, alongside actors from Croatia and Montenegro, which already gives the series a strong foundation. More importantly, this is exactly the kind of story where actors can do much more than simply fulfil their role in a crime plot. As Matevž explained at the Ljubljana premiere, a series gives you time to develop characters gradually and lead the audience through their stories in a way that is much harder to achieve in a film, where everything has to happen much faster. A psychological thriller needs characters who are not simply black or white and whose motives cannot be understood within the first few minutes. Slovenian TV series have taken a considerable step forward in recent years. Jezero showed that it is possible to make a dark Slovenian crime series that does not feel like television from another era, while Leninov park and Dolina rož continued in a similar direction. That is one of the reasons my expectations for Trezor were fairly high, and after seeing the first episode I already know exactly what I will be doing on Sunday evenings from September 20 onwards. Just a small spoiler, although not really about the plot. The first episode hooks you quickly enough that when it ended, I asked Matevž whether I could get another dose of Trezor injected directly into my veins, because otherwise I would actually have to wait for the next episode. There is another reason why Trezor is worth paying attention to. It is the first TV series in the region created through cooperation between three national public broadcasters, RTV Slovenija, Croatian Radiotelevision and Radio and Television of Montenegro. That cooperation allowed a Slovenian story to become a larger regional production with actors and creators from several countries. And yes, this is also one of the reasons why we need RTV Slovenija. So that viewers can get ambitious, high-quality original productions instead of being served nothing but cheap television content.