JANISSARY EPIC SERIES
TO LAUNCH TOMMOROW!
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| Janissary will start in Russia tomorrow |
and international project with more than 150 actors involved in total. The shooting started back in the summer of 2019
so it was a very long production process. The story is set at the end
of the15th and the beginning of the 16th
century so beside the infamous Turkish sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (Serbian actor Ivan Bosiljcic), the series will also include Russian tzars Fedor Ivanovich (Vladimir Koshevoi) and Boris Godunov (Artur Ivanov). 
Samvel Tadevosian, controversial Serbian actress Milena Radulovic, Arina Zharkova, Richard Lepers also star. Ivan Shurhovetzkiy, who helmed Kolovrat, is also directing this one. A whole city was built in Turkey for the needs of the production and some of the mass scenes include more than 
2000 people on screen. It it interesting that the sets were done by Tims Production which also did famous Magnificent Century, Turkey's most popular historical series ever. The series has already been sold to ex Yugoslav countries, Turkey, and some of the Middle East and North African countries.
THE STORY OF THE PRISONER
Alekha (Ilya Malakov)
is an honest, strong, freedom loving Cossack from the end of the 16th century, who decided to fulfill his
father's last will. As a result, he goes to a foreign land in order to bow to the Virgin 
Mary. By the will of fate, he finds himself in the palace of the Sultan Mehmed (Serbian star Ivan Bosiljcic) of the Ottoman Empire. Here the Russian is taken prisoner and sent to become one of
the evil Jannisaries (sultan's elite
squads made from the children and
prisoners who are taken from the enslaved regions of the empire and then trained and forced to turn against their own families and people). In an instant, not only
plans, but also the life of the 
protagonist goes downhill. The man tries
to fight fate, but the circumstances are stronger. As a result, he becomes an Ottoman
prisoner who must serve the hated sultan. Here Alekha will face many
trials and hardships.
But during the 
whole journey, he does not give up on the faith that
one day he will return home - to his native land. In parallel, he finds
the love of his life. But even here difficult tests await him. But for a
real Cossack there are no barriers when he
loves. He is ready to give
his life for his beloved, because
in a true Cossack, love for a woman is equated with love for the
Motherland. Check out the trailer for the series below and tell us what you
think:
Mary. By the will of fate, he finds himself in the palace of the Sultan Mehmed (Serbian star Ivan Bosiljcic) of the Ottoman Empire. Here the Russian is taken prisoner and sent to become one of
the evil Jannisaries (sultan's elite squads made from the children and
prisoners who are taken from the enslaved regions of the empire and then trained and forced to turn against their own families and people). In an instant, not only
plans, but also the life of the protagonist goes downhill. The man tries
to fight fate, but the circumstances are stronger. As a result, he becomes an Ottoman
prisoner who must serve the hated sultan. Here Alekha will face many
trials and hardships.
But during the whole journey, he does not give up on the faith that
one day he will return home - to his native land. In parallel, he finds
the love of his life. But even here difficult tests await him. But for a
real Cossack there are no barriers when he loves. He is ready to give
his life for his beloved, because
in a true Cossack, love for a woman is equated with love for the
Motherland. Check out the trailer for the series below and tell us what you
think:
