McMafia is a British crime drama television series created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins, and directed by Watkins. It is inspired by the book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by journalist Misha Glenny (2008).[1] The series, which stars James Norton as Alex Godman, the British-raised son of a Russian mafia boss living in London whose father is trying to escape from the world of organised crime, is co-produced by BBC, AMC Networks, and Cuba Pictures.[2][3][4] It premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 1 January 2018,[5] and in the United States on AMC on 26 February 2018.[6][7]
Originally billed as a serial, BBC One recommissioned the programme for an eight-chapter second series
Cast
Main cast
James Norton as Alex Godman
David Strathairn as Semiyon Kleiman, Israeli businessman
Juliet Rylance as Rebecca Harper, Alex's fiancée
Merab Ninidze as Vadim Kalyagin, powerful member of the Russian Mafia
Aleksey Serebryakov as Dimitri Godman, Alex's father
Maria Shukshina as Oksana Godman, Alex's mother
Faye Marsay as Katya Godman, Alex's sister
David Dencik as Boris Godman, Alex's uncle
Oshri Cohen as Joseph, Israeli bodyguard
Sofia Lebedeva as Lyudmilla Nikolayeva, beauty therapist
Caio Blat as Antonio Mendez
Kirill Pirogov as Ilya Fedorov
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dilly Mahmood, Indian business partner
Karel Roden as Karel Benes
Recurring cast
Yuval Scharf as Tanya
Anna Levanova as Natasha
Clifford Samuel as Femi
Maria Mashkova as Masha
Kemi-Bo Jacobs as Karin
Atul Kale as Benny Chopra
Evgeni Golan as Marat
Eve Parmiter as Jennifer
Tim Ahern as Sydney Bloom
Ellie Piercy as Sandrine
Danila Kozlovsky as Grigory Mishin
Alexander Dyachenko as Oleg
Fernando Cayo as Guillermo Alegre
Production
McMafia was inspired by journalist Misha Glenny's non-fiction book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime, published in 2008. The series took a few stories from Glenny's book, which documents various mafia organisations thriving around the world today. The series was created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins, and is a co-production of the BBC, AMC, and Cuba Pictures, in association with Twickenham Studios.[9]
The BBC announced the series in October 2015.[10] In April 2016, it was announced that James Norton had been cast in the lead role of Alex Godman and that co-creator Watkins would direct all eight episodes. Additional casting, including Maria Shukshina and Aleksey Serebryakov as Alex's parents, and David Strathairn as a shady Israeli businessman, was announced in November 2016.[11] In addition to Amini and Watkins, David Farr, Peter Harness, and Laurence Coriat co-wrote the series.[12]
Filming locations included London, Zagreb, Split, Opatija, Qatar, Mumbai, Prague, Cairo, Belgrade, Belize, Istanbul, Moscow, and Tel Aviv.[9][12][13][14] The budget was several million pounds per episode
Originally billed as a serial, BBC One recommissioned the programme for an eight-chapter second series
Cast
Main cast
James Norton as Alex Godman
David Strathairn as Semiyon Kleiman, Israeli businessman
Juliet Rylance as Rebecca Harper, Alex's fiancée
Merab Ninidze as Vadim Kalyagin, powerful member of the Russian Mafia
Aleksey Serebryakov as Dimitri Godman, Alex's father
Maria Shukshina as Oksana Godman, Alex's mother
Faye Marsay as Katya Godman, Alex's sister
David Dencik as Boris Godman, Alex's uncle
Oshri Cohen as Joseph, Israeli bodyguard
Sofia Lebedeva as Lyudmilla Nikolayeva, beauty therapist
Caio Blat as Antonio Mendez
Kirill Pirogov as Ilya Fedorov
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dilly Mahmood, Indian business partner
Karel Roden as Karel Benes
Recurring cast
Yuval Scharf as Tanya
Anna Levanova as Natasha
Clifford Samuel as Femi
Maria Mashkova as Masha
Kemi-Bo Jacobs as Karin
Atul Kale as Benny Chopra
Evgeni Golan as Marat
Eve Parmiter as Jennifer
Tim Ahern as Sydney Bloom
Ellie Piercy as Sandrine
Danila Kozlovsky as Grigory Mishin
Alexander Dyachenko as Oleg
Fernando Cayo as Guillermo Alegre
Production
McMafia was inspired by journalist Misha Glenny's non-fiction book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime, published in 2008. The series took a few stories from Glenny's book, which documents various mafia organisations thriving around the world today. The series was created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins, and is a co-production of the BBC, AMC, and Cuba Pictures, in association with Twickenham Studios.[9]
The BBC announced the series in October 2015.[10] In April 2016, it was announced that James Norton had been cast in the lead role of Alex Godman and that co-creator Watkins would direct all eight episodes. Additional casting, including Maria Shukshina and Aleksey Serebryakov as Alex's parents, and David Strathairn as a shady Israeli businessman, was announced in November 2016.[11] In addition to Amini and Watkins, David Farr, Peter Harness, and Laurence Coriat co-wrote the series.[12]
Filming locations included London, Zagreb, Split, Opatija, Qatar, Mumbai, Prague, Cairo, Belgrade, Belize, Istanbul, Moscow, and Tel Aviv.[9][12][13][14] The budget was several million pounds per episode
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