'Homeland' Season 5 Updates: Watch New Season's Teaser; Ukrainian Actor Cast As Russian Saul [VIDEO]

The new teaser of “Homeland” Season 5 is out. The 30-second teaser features Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) and Saul (Mandy Patinkin). The latter is seen questioning Carrie’s decision to cut her umbilical cord with CIA.

“You turned your back on your entire life,” Saul says in the teaser clip. "What are you atoning for, keeping America safe? You’re being naive and stupid, something you never were before." Carrie can be seen disagreeing, saying that she is not atoning but trying to do some good work.

The brief clip also provides a glimpse of Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend). It ends with an eruption of action scenes, with assailants, gun shots and bomb explosions. The assailants are seen kidnapping Carrie.

As previously reported, Carrie is moving to Berlin, Germany after quitting CIA. Estranged from CIA and on a self-imposed exile, she will be working for a private security firm. The new season, the production of which is currently underway in Berlin, picks two years after the events of the previous season and will see new faces.

The latest to join the cast of “Homeland” Season 5 is Ukrainian actor Mark Ivanir. He has signed on to play the role of Russian Saul. The Hollywood Reporter reported that Ivanir is playing Russian intelligence agent Ivan Krupin, a counterpart of Saul in the SVR. It is a recurring role. Also Micah Hauptman has been tapped to guest star as CIA tech Mills in the upcoming season.

Mills will be based at Berlin station and working under chief of station Allison Carr, played by Miranda Otto. In addition to Otto, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Koch and Sarah Sokolovic have been roped in to play important characters.

Fehling is playing the role of Carrie’s new man, Jonas Happich, while Koch is her German boss. And Sokolovic has signed on to play an American journalist who is a colleague of Happich at Düring Foundation.

“Homeland” Season 5 premieres sometime this fall. Alex Gansa, showrunner of “Homeland,” told The Hollywood Reporter that they will be in Europe telling the story of events taking place in the Middle East, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, adding, “it’s all going to be part of the world she's [Carrie] in.”

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