McMafia begins on BBC1 on New Year’s Day at 9.00pm UK Time, continues on Tuesday 2nd January at the same time.

Russian authenticity
Among the show’s main considerations, says Amini, was the importance of getting the scenes set in the expat Russian community correct. He admits that he drew in part on his own experiences arriving as a child from Iran in the 1970s. “I did give some of my story to Alex,” he admits. “That feeling of being proud of where you are from but also sometimes ashamed or embarrassed of it plus the notion of exile and what it means to be from somewhere where you might never return. We were also very mindful of trying not to do the Russian cliché, which is why it was very important to us to have Russian actors in those roles and not well-known English stars doing an accent.”

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