Split (TV series)

Split

Promotional poster for the first season of Split. Central character: Ella. Other characters from left to right: Omer, Zohar, Guy, Nicky, Leo
Genre Supernatural, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Comedy-drama
Created by Ilan Rosenfeld, Shira Alon
Starring Yon Tumarkin
Amit Farkash
Maya Shoef
Avi Kornick
Anna Zaikin
Yedidia Vital
Idan Ashkenazi
Gal Lev
Alex Ansky
Meir Swisa
Sasha Demidov
Eliana Bekier
Country of origin Israel
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 135 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) Dori Media Darset
Running time approx. 22 min.
Production company(s) HOT
Noga Communications
Broadcast
Original channel HOT VOD Young
Arutz HaYeladim
Original run May 28, 2009 – January 31, 2012
External links
Website

Split (Hebrew: חֲצוּיָה, Hatsuya) is an Israeli supernatural drama series. It is directed by Shai Kapon and airs on the HOT VOD Young channel. It is produced by the Dori Media Group through its subsidiary Dori Media Darset (formerly Darset Productions).

Overview

Split is created by Ilan Rosenfeld and Shira Alon. Shai Kapon directs the television series, which is produced by the Dori Media Group for the HOT VOD Young channel. Amit Farkash plays the 15 year old Ella Rosen, who finds out that she is half human and half vampire. Yon Tumarkin supports her as the 600 year old vampire Leo.[1] The series became the most popular show at the HOT VOD Young Channel.[2] Until January 2010 seven million viewers watched the series.[3] Split became also popular outside of Israel. The Boomerang Channel bought the series and broadcast Split in South America.[4] According to TSN Split was sold to 78 different countries.[5] The first season was filmed within 30 days. They stated filming in the middle of February and ended at the beginning of April 2009.[6] Split was influenced by the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer[7] and True Blood[8] and Stephenie Meyers Twilight series.[9]

Plot summary

First Season

The series centers around 15-year-old Ella Rosen who begins high school along with her best friend, Omer Teneh. The school is managed by the stone-hearted Amnon Green, who is secretly the head of "The Order of Blood" - An order which was founded 1000 years ago – its purpose is to cleanse the world of Vampires.

During the series there are three major plot lines which are all connected:

Nicky (Nurit), is a character who is involved with all three plot lines. In the first one, Nicky befriends Ella, and is willing to listen to Ella's troubles and fears, which helps Ella deal with what she finds out about herself. In the second plot line, Nicky is the one who proves to Zohar that a war against the vampires is not the solution, and that it will not stop the vampires' attacks (a result of a shortage of the blood replacement, following Ardak's death). Plus, Sushi and Nicky become a couple at the end of the season. In the third plot line, Carmel (Leo's past lover) is released by Phaton and possesses Nicky's body, in order to distract Leo from guarding Ella (to overcome Ella, and win the title of the Prophet). Carmel also bites Guy and turns him into a vampire. Later on Leo gets back on the right track and releases Nicky by vanquishing Carmel.

At the end of the season, the vampires are exposed in front of the school's students and staff, and Ella, who is opened up and bolder changes during the season, is presented as the new prophet, in front of the vampires and humans both, during a concert in the school. Amnon thinks he won and wants to kill Ella and eliminate the blood replacement, but backs down after Ella shows him (in a vision) that he should stop the war. According to the vision, Zohar will die if he does not do so. Meanwhile, in "The Order of Blood", Zohar (who had already understood that war is not the answer), Guy, Sushi and Nicky seek and find video cassettes which document vampires, in order to reveal them to the world and expose the vampires (in a good way). However, as they try to leave the place, they are interrupted by Tamar, a high-level vampire exterminator, a member of "The Order of Blood". Tamar stops them and tries to kill Guy, who is now known as a vampire. According to Ella's vision, which was shown to Amnon, Zohar is shot by Tamar after defending Guy with her body, sacrificing herself. But since Amnon had backed down, another thing happens: Zohar shows Tamar her personal file, which reveals that Tamar's parents got into an exchange of fire between "The Order of Blood" and vampires, and due to that were killed by the order's fire. Tamar herself survived thanks to a vampire who saved her. Tamar, who always thought that vampires killed her parents, stops the war. The video cassettes are released, and the world is exposed to vampires. At the end of the season, Ella has to choose between Omer and Leo, both in love with her. Ella chooses Omer.
The last scene seems as madness, insanity: Dima, a fencing teacher at the school and also the Guardian of the blood replacement fountain, is shown in the fountain's cave, surrounded with doubles of him, in different outfits, doing different actions. Dima says "Finally, the end of the blood period has come to an end. Now it's our turn". He repeats the last sentence a several times, as he starts to dance around the cave. The rest of the doubles disappear, and the real Dima turns directly to the audience and roars like a lion. This indicates a dramatic change that is probably going to apply in next season.[10]

Second Season

The season begins in an event that occurred 1000 years prior season 2 in the Woods of Green. Ardak, is fighting against Lilth the queen of the demons. Lilith is stabbed in her heart by Ardak's Sword and is killed, all of Lilith's demons are vanished. Ardak is letting Lilith's Servant to run away and the Serveant revealed to be Dima.

1000 years later, a new School year is starting in green high, Ella decides not to move to Ardak's Tabernacle, and wants live her life like a normal teenager, the situation causes clashes between her and Leo. Meanwhile Dima discovered the body of Lilth in the fountain's cave and discovers the cave is full with demons eggs. during an Earthquake one of the eggs hatches and the demon who was inside of it flees away. the target of the demons is to draw vampires' souls create a stone out of it and bring it to their queen so she could create new demons. soon after the demon flees from the cave he arrives to Green high, there he draws a vampire's soul which enrolled as a student at the school (demons automatically draws vampires' souls when a vampire is near them) and takes over his identity. from now on the name of the demon is Adam. Adam is not aware of the fact that he is a demon and he doesn't know how to control his powers. Adam first meets Ella when he tries to attack her and he discovered he can not do so when she's around. Ella gets a premonition in which she brings Adam back to life, which later revealed to be an initiative by Dima, who realizes he could bring Lilith back to life with the help of Ella. Dima's soul is poisoned and Adam which draw it by Dima's demand, dies. Dima is calling Ella to the Cave and she brings Adam back to life. Ella feels there is something different in Adam and takes him under her wing, while trying to figure out what creature he actually is. Dima demands Adam to Ingratiate himself with Ella, so when the time comes he'll ask her to use her powers to revive Lilth- if this won't be done, Adam will die.

Leo is heartbroken, because Ella chose to be with Omer instead of being with him, and is slowly dying. He gets fired from his job as the prophet's guardian and is trying to make Ella realize he is her true love, not Omer. In the meantime Adam continues to draws Vempaires' soul and is creating stones out of them in a slow and painful process. Jamon who was a senior in the Vampires' council is now Ella's advisor and the manager of the new nightclub in town (a main location in the season) which is open exclusively to vampires, which prefer to stay away from humans. The humans and the vampires now have secret agreements. According to the agreement the humans will provide blood to the vampires and in exchange the vampires will provide their knowledge to humans.

The human who signs on the agreements with the vampires is Amnon Green. Amnon asks Tamar (who was his assistant in the order of blood) to spy for him after Andrea Foox, and old friend of his and a hater of vampiers, who own the box of blood, an ancient box which contains the powers of an ancient vampire, and can be opened only with the blood of 10 vampires and one split. Tamar proves Andre she is loyal to him by "shooting" Amnon, but in fact she warned him before that and Amnon is pretending to be in coma in the hospital.

Ella and Omer break up during the season and Ella start dating with Leo. Adam Tells Ella he is a demon and she promise him she will protect him. When the vampires discover Adam's true nature they are trying to kill him but Ella saves him. Therefore, Leo opens the box of Blood and is trying to kill Adam with the powers he got. Ella brings Lilith back to life so she could help her to save Adam. Lilth kills Leo after she kissed him and is starting to produce a new species: new creatures which are half vampire, half demon. Although he is being loyal to Lilth, Dima brings Leo back to life. In the School's gym Ella fights against Lilth and is about to lose but then Adam draws Lilth's soul, killing her for good, and dies. the new offspring of Lilth hatched and the humans are shooting on them using archery, destroying all of them.

Michael, Ella's foster father, manages to create a new blood replacement for the vampires, and Leo agrees that Ella does not have to move to the tabernacle.

Just when everything seems perfect, the last scene of the season shows us one last offspring survived and is standing in the woods of Green, revealing her fangs and demon's nails to the viewers.

Third Season: Split - The True Story

The third season of Split is a show within a show telling the story of a young group of actors and actresses which is starring in the successful youth-vampire series Split

While filming the second season of Split Yon (who plays Leo in Split) and Amit (who plays Ella in Split) were a couple, Yon turned down an offer of playing the lead-role in a new movie abroad to stay with Amit, Amit thinks she's hunted by ghosts and is freaking out saying Yon is the only one who could save her from the ghosts. Yon, who's confused because of this, breaks up with Amit, Quit his role as Leo in Split and is taking the offer to star in the movie abroad.

A year later the production team is already in the preparations process for the third season of Split. Meni, the producer of Split is casting a new guy named Ruby to play Leo instead of Yon. After Ruby is informed he got the part of Leo he is killed in a car accident and some kind of supernatural personality named "Echo" is taking over his body. Amit who fell in love with Ruby start dating him not knowing he is "Echo".

Meanwhile, Yon started to get signs from Ruby's Ghost who tries to warn him about "Echo". Yon Eventually gets fired from the movie and is returning to Israel, and is managed to get a minor role in Split. Yon is using the Help of Gabi, an actors' agent, who was in a relationship with Meni and also used to be the agent of Yon and all the others actors in Split before they left her, because she believes in mysticism and he is asking her to help him to vanish the ghost (not knowing it's Ruby).

Meanwhile Amit is not happy with the fact that Yon returned, thinking he did that only to win her back, but on the other hand,her roommate Maya (who plays Zohar in Split) is secretly in love with Yon and she trying to make him ask her out, but he sees her only as a good friend. Meanwhile "Echo", in the body of Ruby, Kills Gabi who tries to vanish him and uses her to vanish the ghost of Ruby before letting her go. Yon is asking Agam (who plays Carmel in Split) to pretend to be his girlfriend so Amit won't think he came back for he, Agam agrees but is slowly falling in love with him. After the ghost of Ruby was Vanished Yon realizes he is still in love with Amit.

Yedidia (who plays Omer in Split) is befriend with the new Actress in Split, Eleanor, despite Danny's (who plays Shahar in Split) anger who is in love with her, and Maya decides to take Eleanor under her wing and is moving in with her. Avi (who plays Guy in Split) and Idan (who plays Sushi in Split) are buying a bar and entitled it "Bracula" (bar+Dracula) [main location in the season]. Alma, Avi's sister, start to work in the bar as a bartender and also start dating with Idan. The three find out there is a homeless named Shaul in the basement of the Bar who is telling them he was a professor who did a research about ghosts and is later revealed to work in a police unit in his past.

Main characters

Minor characters

Inactive characters

Vampires

There are two types of vampires: those who are born vampires and humans who were bitten by vampires. Vampires are described as handsome, very intelligent and talented. According to Amnon, being a vampire is against the laws of nature. Vampires have both strengths and weaknesses, however there are "frozen" vampires (those without special vampiric powers). Also, vampires must drink human blood or "Doll-Bar" to exist.

Powers

Weaknesses

Concepts

International Broadcast

Country Network Local Title
 Azerbaijan Lider TV Split
 Israel Hot VOD Young
Arutz HaYeladim
חֲצוּיָה
 Brazil
 Chile
Boomerang Split
 Mexico Boomerang
Once TV México
Split
 Portugal SIC K Split
 Brazil SBT Split
 Philippines TV5
TeleAsia
Split
 Russia Muz-TV Сплит
 Vietnam VBC Split
 Colombia Boomerang
Caracol TV
Split
 Italy Rai Gulp Split
 Poland iTV Split
 Costa Rica Canal 9 Split
 Venezuela Televen Split

Ukrainian Remake

In 2011 a Ukrainian remake of the Israeli series was filmed. Split (Ukrainian: Спліт, Russian: Сплит) is the first Ukrainian production about vampires. The series was filmed in St. Petersburg. Vlad Lanna is the director of Split. The main actors are Kristina Brodskaya, Artem Krylov, Maksim Salnikov, Igor Mikrurbanov and Mariya Akhmetzyanova.[5] On 17 October 2011 the first episode was broadcast on TET.[12] The series consists of 40 Episodes, which are 25 minutes long.[13]

The Ukrainian series is about the war between humans and vampires which has been ongoing for centuries. The vampire prophet tries to mediate between the humans and vampires. Since the prophet Ardak has become very old he is looking for a successor. He findes the 16-year old Split Leah. Leah is a shy girl. She is studying arts and doesn't know about the supernatural world. So Ardak sends the 428 year old vampire Kai as a student to the art college. Kai wants to protect Leah and prepare her for her fate as the vampire prophet. Leah and Kai instantly fall in love with each other. However their love is forbidden by both the human and vampire laws. If they break these laws they will loose all their supernatural powers. So they have to make a difficult choice, should they either listen to their hearts or to their minds.[5][14]

Actors and Characters in comparison

Character (Israel) Actor (Israel) Character (Ukraine)[15] Actor (Ukraine)
Ella Rozen Amit Farkash Leah Rosanow Kristina Brodskaya
Leopold 'Leo' Zachs Yon Tumarkin Lee Kai Artem Krylov
Nurit 'Nicky' Shilon Anna Zaikin Leah Willow Maria Antonova
Omer Teneh Yedidya Vital Anton Kutusow Maksim Salnikov
Guy Rozen Avi Kornick Luke Rosanow Dmitriy Panfilov
Zohar Grin Maya Shoef Maya Odintsova Mariya Akhmetzyanova
Moshe "Sushi" Arieli Idan Ashkenazi Max Ilyya Shidlovskiy
Ardak Yussuf Abu-Warda Ardak Vladimir Markov
Phaton Shmil Ben Ari Manfred Igor Mikrurbanov
Rafael Meir Swisa Rafael Oleg Garkusha

See also

References

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  2. "הודעה לעיתונות". Scooper. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
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  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Телеканал ТЕТ начал съемки сериала "Сплит".". TSN. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
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  12. Olga Litskevich (17 October 2011). "Звезда сериала "Сплит" Кристина БРОДСКАЯ: "Наш проект сравнивают с "поттерианой"". Kp.ua. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
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