About Pod Prikritie (Undercover)
Pod Prikritie, known in English as Undercover, is a Bulgarian crime drama produced for Bulgarian National Television that follows a long undercover police operation against organized crime in Sofia. The series tracks the dangerous double life of a young officer who is embedded inside the empire of a powerful crime boss, where a single slip in his cover story could cost him his life. Across its run it became one of the most widely watched and discussed scripted dramas on Bulgarian television.
The story centers on the cat and mouse relationship between the police and the underworld, as detectives try to gather evidence against a network involved in trafficking, extortion, and corruption that reaches into business and politics. The undercover officer must earn the trust of the men he is investigating while protecting his own family and his own conscience, and the line between duty and loyalty grows steadily thinner the deeper he goes.
Over five seasons the show widened its scope from a single sting into a sprawling portrait of crime, money, and power in post-transition Bulgaria, with shifting alliances, betrayals, and personal tragedies. Its mix of tense action, moral conflict, and grounded local detail helped it build a devoted audience and a lasting reputation as a landmark of modern Bulgarian television. This entry is AI-compiled from public sources and flagged for human fact-check.
