Servant of the People (2015)

Original title

Слуга народу

Directed by

Aleksey Kiryushchenko

Genre

comedy, political satire

Country

Ukraine

Length

3 seasons, 51 episodes

Rated

14

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 88 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school history teacher is unexpectedly elected president of Ukraine after a video of him venting about corruption goes viral. He tries to run the country with honesty and common sense, facing chaos from career politicians.

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What happens

Servant of the People is a Ukrainian political satire comedy series created and produced by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy stars as Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, a high school history teacher in his thirties, who was unexpectedly elected president of Ukraine after finding instant fame when a student recorded a video of him delivering a profane rant against government corruption in his country and uploaded it to the internet. The series ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2019, and a film adaptation was released in 2016. The series was produced by Kvartal 95, a studio founded by Zelenskyy. In 2018, the studio became involved in Ukrainian politics when a political party of the same name as the show was registered. While this was initially done to prevent others from using the name for "cynical political purposes", it quickly became active in Ukrainian politics, with Zelenskyy running as its candidate in the real-life 2019 Ukrainian presidential election against the incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Zelenskyy was elected president following a landslide victory in the second round election, winning 73% of the vote. He was sworn in as the president of Ukraine on 20 May 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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