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''Zaguri Imperia'' ((ヘブライ語:זגורי אימפריה), literally ''Zaguri Empire'') is an Israeli mystery comedy-drama, created by Maor Zaguri and produced by HOT Telecommunication Systems. The first season was broadcast on the cable channel HOT3 between April 8 to June 4, 2014. The second opened on 3 February 2015 and ended on 1 April 2015. The series was both one of the most expensive and most successful to air on Israeli television. ==Plot== The series opens with a flashforward of Aviel Zaguri, his face spattered with blood, stating before a police officer that he has killed his father. He mutters that none can escape the hand of prophecy, and that he is Oedipus. Eight years ago, Aviel was sent away from his home in Beersheba to a boarding school. He strove to discard his traditional Moroccan-Jewish heritage, adopting the norms and culture of his Eastern European-descended (''Ashkenazim'') peers and even dropping his surname in favour of the more all-Israeli sounding "Gur". He is now a promising career officer in the IDF's Artillery Corps, holding the rank of a captain. Aviel is torn away from his environment when being urgently called back home, which he had barely visited since his departure, to the deathbed of his grandfather Pinto. Decades ago, the latter owned the South's most prosperous falafel stand; His adopted son Albert ("Beber") married his biological daughter Vivienne in spite of his severe protests and gradually drove Pinto out of business. Both severed all ties between them. Aviel was the only family member who reestablished contact with the old man. Pinto had him swear that someday he shall reopen the stand and return it to its former glory, but he has forgotten his oath. Aviel grudgingly brings with him his ''Ashkenazi'' girlfriend Shahar, a fellow officer, who is baffled by his stereotypical Moroccan family, the members of which hold a dim view of the ethnic gap in Israel – Beber refuses to honor the moment of silence on Holocaust Remembrance Day, mockingly stating "I will stand when they would teach about my Shtetl in Morocco!" – and instantly dub her "mayonnaise" for her pale complexion. He confronts the provincial, religious and poverty-stricken world he thought he left behind: his estranged, miserly and eccentric father and his entire family of nine souls reside in a cramped apartment. Vivienne is a diabetic, superstitious woman who has a complex relationship with her own mother, Alegria. Aviel's older brother, Avi, is a low-ranking policeman who still lives with his parents while the younger twenty-something Eviatar dreams of a career in Oriental music and occasionally engages in petty crime for the local mafia boss, Ciao. The 32-year-old firstborn sister Miriam is a desperate spinster; another younger brother, Avishay, suffers from supposed mental retardation, though he is intelligent in his own way. The young teen Abir is foul-mouthed, violent and troubled, and his slightly older sister Avigail is neurotic. Aviel is most burdened by the tense relations with his formerly close sister Avishag, who has grown to become an indulgent and capricious beauty. The household is dysfunctional, with everyone holding grudges against one another; Beber adores and spoils Avishag, who neither works nor studies although she is already twenty-five years old, to the resentment of her siblings. Vivienne has a similarly suffocating relationship with her long-lost Aviel and attempts to have him stay permanently. The newly returned son also meets his old friend Lizzy, a young woman who adheres to a traditionalist, supernatural worldview which Aviel regards as absurd. During Pinto's funeral, the Zaguris are visited by his elderly sister Mas'uda. The old woman, who carries the reputation of being a witch, demands that Aviel – whom she and her brother call "The Circumcised", for he was born without a foreskin – uphold his vow. Upon perceiving his little interest in doing so she curses the family, forcing them all and Aviel especially to delve into the dark and troubled past while confronting their own bleak present. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zaguri Imperia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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