Sitcom "Friendship of Peoples" is not just a fun and comedy series, it is a whole project that helps to make fun of stereotypes and realize their mistakes.
What is the series about?
The series will tell you about the family life of a hot Lezgin man and a sweet, homely, but at the same time very powerful Cossack. The family has two children who are so different from each other that at times it seems like they are not relatives at all.
Love, family, wisdom and stupidity - this is what the series "Friendship of Peoples" is dedicated to. The actors did a great job in order not to offend, but only to laugh at the cultural differences.
The heroes Lena and Dzhabrail Muslimov are not just a married couple owning their own dental clinic in Moscow, they are an example of how representatives of two cultures can exist side by side.
Who played?
The actors of the series “Friendship of Peoples” Ekaterina Skulkina and Timur Taniya, who portrayed a loving couple, are in reality long-time friends on KVN. Perhaps that is why it was so easy for them to play in this series.
The Muslim children are played by novice stars Diana Babayan in the role of Camilla and Daniil Oganjanyan in the role of Alexander.
An endless crowd of relatives are many famous actors of films and TV shows: Karen Harutyunov, Ashot Keshchyan, Elena Kondulaynen and many others. Despite such an environment where several more cultures united in reality, everyone became friends and became friends even after the completion of the project “Friendship of Peoples”. The actors and the roles that they performed so merged together that outside the set the artists began to get confused in the names.
How was the series created?
Many are interested in how they created such an interesting and completely unusual series as “Friendship of Peoples”. The actors who performed the main roles did not just play them - they recreated the images of real people.
Shaban and Nina Muslimovs are a real married couple consisting of a Cossack woman and a Lezgin. They wrote this script not only to show that they were amused, but also to raise a very important topic of xenophobia.
“Unfortunately, modern people are not always ready to accept the fact that nationality does not play any role in personal relationships,” says Shaban. “That's what we decided to shoot the series about. It’s very important to be able to negotiate in love, and that she’s not hurt by cultural differences.
When the project was created, a casting was announced in the series "Friendship of Peoples." Actors, although they were in a hurry to send their feedback, did not pass the test, because they did not fully understand the essence of the project. It seemed to them that this is an entertaining show, just for fun. But they needed to look deeper, as Catherine and Timur did.
Project scandal and closure
Despite the fact that the series was created under the guidance of a true Lezgin, not all of the public reacted positively to the sitcom. As expected, many peoples of the Caucasus felt that the series “Friendship of Peoples” (actors, screenwriters, directors) ridicules cultural differences and has absolutely no positive side.
Residents of Dagestan prepared a whole appeal to TNT that the series should be closed immediately. This statement contained many points that the sitcom discredited the honor and dignity of the real Lezgin, that there were too many frank scenes in the series, which was unacceptable for the Caucasian family, and much more.
It is not known for certain why the series ended after the first season. None of the participants mentioned the continuation, as if there was no such project in their filmography. Perhaps the actors were silent because of the anger hanging over them, or maybe they themselves did not really understand what would happen next.
However, many sources have already set the release date for the second season. To the delight of the fans, a possible event will happen on October 17, 2016. And if this is true, then very soon we will learn the continuation of the story of the Muslim family.