Servant of the People (2015 TV series)
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| Genre | Political satire Comedy |
| Created by | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
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| Theme music composer | Dmytro Shurov |
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| Country of origin | Ukraine |
| Original languages | Russian Ukrainian |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 51 |
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| Production locations | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Running time | 40–90 minutes |
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| Network | 1+1 |
| Release | 16 November 2015 – 28 March 2019 |
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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.