Comedy "with an accent" "The Last of Magikyan" is made in the style of a popular family sitcom, and removed the TV channel "CTC" in cooperation with the company «Yellow, Black and White». The new series extends the range of audiences already love comedies - "Daddy's Daughter" and "Voronin".

Last "mammoth" in Moscow

Karen Magikyanu (Grant Tokhatyan) turns 49 years old, he is a man of the old school and traditionalist, this Muscovite and thoroughbred Armenian, he lives in the past, in a world that is changing too fast, even for the young in spirit. He was not easy to raise three daughters, whom he does not always understand, since they literally live on the Internet and spend hours talking on Skype with friends, and he persistently uses an old black-and-white mobile phone and refuses to start e-mail. Karen has not kept pace with their children to develop, and outrageous customs of today's youth can not be combined with his understanding of decency.

His wife Karen Natalia (Anna Ardova) only laughs at her husband's habits and tries to explain to him that he and his principles hopelessly behind the rules of the new century. And Karen dreams about his son, about procreation Magikyan that threatens to break off on it, and it's a real tragedy.

Cultural relations

"The Last of Magikyan" - a sitcom for the whole family: the type of comedy that has no vulgar humor, skrabeznyh allusions and explicit scenes. All the action is centered around the protagonist - Karen Magikyana, he is the head of the family, a husband, a father, a businessman friend, he has a lot of everyday roles, each of which he modified and remains a. The authors of the series conceived this character as charismatic, but a static image. Source charm of the character - its commitment to the old traditions, which comes to absurdity, but serves light, with humor. Karen always courageous and monumental, it is of the type of men The types of men and women's attitude to them Who left in the past.

Armenian actor Grant Tokhatyan - a brilliant discovery for the lead role. His character has turned bright representative of their nationality, at the same time blend in Moscow reality, showing business acumen and drive. Magikyan in his performance reactionary, despotic caring, loving command, but adored his wife and daughters. An interesting display of his duet with Anna Ardov, who played his wife. They manage together to find the right balance in order to revive the ideas of the director and screenwriters, and to screen a married couple, living for years in a happy marriage and overcome ethnic divisions and the difference in temperaments every day.

The series also starred a lot of young unknown actors and actors who come from other projects of TV channel "CTC". Roles in the project performed by Andrew Burkovsky Alina Greenberg, Louise Gabriel Brovina, Helen Kasyanik Alexander Feklistov, Temik Chichinadze, Natalya Vdovina Nataliya Kurdyubova, and others. As the invited "stars" of the show appear Igor Wernick and Soso Pavliashvili.

Traditions sitcoms

Produced "The Last of Magikyan" Vyacheslav Murugov, CEO of TV Channel "CTC" by which aired such successful projects as "Kadetstvo", "Closed School", "Daddy's Girls", "Kitchen". The series is a continuation of the "family" channel lineup, designed to show the mixed-age audience.

Take the director's chair invited the writer, actor and director of Georgian origin Rezo Gigineishvili ("Heat", "Without Men"), apparently relying on the fact that it is best to talk about "life with an accent" in Moscow may be the one who has the appropriate experience and the result lived up to expectations.

The series turned out to truly live, natural, humor in it fits into the plot, but does not seem absurd attachment to the script, the acting, though not outstanding, but there is no squeezing jokes through his teeth and unnatural pasted smiles, played easily without tautness and pauses. All sitcom filmed organically rich, full of bright colors, light, positive emotions. On the other hand, the main theme of the show - international relations - and is not disclosed in full, the sponsors carefully avoids any sharp edges that could cause criticism.

In the first season of "The Last of Magikyan" 40 truncated (as is customary with the sitcom) series for 23 minutes each, in April, I started the show of the second season, but the TV channel "CTC" so pleased with the ratings and confident in the future success of the show has already received an order for the third season.

Anna Chizh

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