The series "Read Me If You Can" - a sure candidate for the nomination for the best summer "soap opera", in view of which can kill a few days, and after that - forget it as a nightmare.

A place for drama

Ilya Avdeev (Jaroslav Zhalnin) returns to his girlfriend Alice (Evgenia Loza) after serving in the army. He missed her and hurries to make his wife, to begin to live, how to plan, start a family, have children. Alice's life is not as simple as it seems, at the request of her father, she entertains wealthy men that after he could blackmail them and extort money for communication with a minor. She is ashamed of himself, but he can not refuse: all this in order to pay the bills for the treatment of patients with leukemia sister.

Alice's father Sergei Wojciechowski (Sergey Zhigunov), together with his friends rob a casino, which employs. The criminals manage to put the blame on Elijah, the young man is in prison, where he dies. In fact, Elijah survive, the owner of the casino itself Roman Arkhipov (Yuri Stoyanov) pays for treatment and surgery to change the appearance beyond recognition guy. Now known as Ilya Nikita Gromov (Ivan Stebunov), he returns to his native place, to take revenge on those who set him up, and look for these thieves. Among those whom it seeks vengeance, and Alice is.

Modern Count of Monte Cristo

The series "Read Me If You Can" is the Russian adaptation of the Turkish serial drama "Ezel", which in turn uses the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. " In order to rewrite and finish the script, and without that does not claim to originality, joined forces three writer Anastasia Gasimov ("Red"), Igor Tkachenko ("Golden mother-in-law") and Yevgeny Frolov ("The Woman Without a Past"). Srezhisserovali project Alexei Gusev ("Train of the North") and Egor Grammatikov ("Thief").

The history of the Count of Monte Cristo is familiar even to those who never opened the eponymous novel: a plot to return with a vengeance enjoys continued popularity among filmmakers. "Know Me If You Can" Against this background, one of the pale, mediocre incarnations, the interest that awakens only acting.

Ivan Stebunov playing that same young man who has lost everything and matured already in jail, do not end up feeling the nature of his character, his character is too soft and inwardly inclines to forgiveness, not vengeance, but the actor brilliantly manages roles superfluous man, he knows how to any scene to show how it differs from those around him, and how is going through its own exclusion.

Lively and sincere actors played the older generation involved in the series. Sergey Zhigunov a father of Alice, prohindeev and drunkards, causing so much disgust and annoyance that no doubt his game deserves a mention. His character is intrusive, cunning and devoid of the concept of conscience, he does not care what will happen to all around him, most importantly, his own safety and comfort. Boris Shcherbakov and Irina Rozanova, parents played the protagonist couple Avdeev, it's a terrific actor duet. Shcherbakov embodies fortitude and restraint, Rozanov is not inferior to him, but its role is more complicated, her character is deprived of vision, therefore requires a special immersion in the role.

The series also stars: Sergey Zhigunov, Kalantaev Sergey Sergey Peregoudov Timur Efremenkov Dmitry Nikonov, Yuri Kuznetsov, Kostya Chernokrylyuk Paul Kraynov Tatiana Orlova and Dmitry Lalenkov, Andrew Debrin Victoria Tokmanenko, Mikhail Zhigalov and many others.

Turkish passion

"Know Me If You Can" is entirely a Russian TV series, guess about the foreign origin of the plot is almost impossible because it is inscribed in the local realities, the only distinctive part - a series of 32, not the usual size for melodrama.

The series is tightened, it has a lot of extra scenes and meaningless conversations that fill the airtime. The story is different affectedness, superficial understanding of casino operations, law enforcement and the achievements of modern medicine. At the same time, the audience watching such melodrama is not for the sake of plausibility, but for passions and possibilities to believe in the characters, to feel them, aided by acting on the level and recognizable plot, which allows to engage in virtually any viewing the series.

Anna Chizh

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