Whiskey on the Rocks is a Swedish satirical television series based on a story by Jonas Jonasson and written by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer inspired by real life events during the Cold War.
[1] In 2020, production company Dramacorp began developing Cold War comedy drama series Whiskey On The Rocks based on a real-life 1981 incident.
The series is directed by Björn Stein and produced by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and Patrick Nebout with Magnus Bimberg’s Humanoids.
Some crew members were initially not told that the series was a comedy, with Stein saying the mentality and the approach was to be "the same as for a traditional spy thriller.
[5] The cast includes Rolf Lassgård, Elsa Saisio, Anders Mossling, Niklas Engdahl, Filip Berg and Adam Lundgren, as well as Kęstutis Jakštas as Leonid Brezhnev and Mark Noble as Ronald Reagan.