Zaguri Imperia
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Maor Zaguri |
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| Composer(s) | Tom Cohen |
| Country of origin | Israel |
| Original language(s) | Hebrew, Judeo-Moroccan |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 51 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Na'ama Azulai |
| Producer(s) | Moshik Faran |
| Cinematography | Avi Kasman |
| Editor(s) | Efrat Dror |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Herzliya Studios |
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| Original network | HOT3 |
| Picture format | 1080 HD |
| Original release | April 8, 2014 – April 1, 2015 |
| Website | hot |
Zaguri Imperia (Hebrew: זגורי אימפריה, lit. 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.
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 middle-class, Eastern European-descended, Waspy (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 military environment when urgently called back home, which he has 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 opposition, and gradually drove Pinto out of business. Both severed all ties between them. Aviel is the only family member who reestablished contact with the old man, who made Aviel swear that someday he would reopen the stand and return it to its former glory, but he has forgotten his oath.
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