Zabranena Lyubov

Zabranena Lyubov
Also known as	Forbidden Love(International title)
Забранена любов
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	Reg Watson
Starring	Fahradin Fahradinov Diana Lyubenova Sanya Borisova Nikolay Iliev
Country of origin	Bulgaria
Original language	Bulgarian
No. of episodes	299
Production
Executive producer	Ivaylo Vandov
Running time	approx. 23 minutes
Original release
Network	Nova Television
Release	October 5, 2008 (2008-10-05) – May 5, 2011 (2011-05-05)

Zabranena Lyubov (Bulgarian: Забранена любов, lit. "Forbidden Love") was a soap opera filmed in Bulgaria. Its broadcasting started on 5 October 2008, at 20:00 on Nova Television and its first season ended on 5 June 2009. It was also aired in Croatia. The soap opera was based on the Australian TV series Sons and Daughters.

The soap opera rotates around two Sofia families, the affluent Konstantinovs and the low-income Belevs, who are mainly linked together by a central theme of love. It not only deals with the love of siblings who are unaware of each other, but also life in contemporary Bulgarian society. It has tackled controversial issues during its first season such as: murder, arson, kidnapping, abortion, homosexuality, rape, teacher-pupil relations and so on.

Its second season started in autumn of 2009. Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov also had a part in one episode as himself.

Characters

The main protagonists consist of two families, the Konstantinovs and the Belevs.

Character	Actor	Background
Anastasiya Konstantinova	Diana Lyubenova
Boris Konstantinov	Todor Tanchev
Martin Konstantinov	Nikolay Iliev
Elitsa Konstantinova	Sanya Borisova
Yavor Belev	Fahradin Fahradinov
Dimitar Belev	Ivaylo Geraskov
Nadezhda Beleva	Albena Stavreva
Filip Belev	Plamen Dimov
Marina Beleva	Iliyana Kodzhabasheva