Servant of the People (2015 TV series)

Servant of the People (Ukrainian: Слуга народу, romanized: Sluha narodu, Russian: Слуга народа, romanized: Sluga naroda), sometimes known as Servant of the Nation, is a Ukrainian political satire comedy television series created and produced by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who stars as Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko, a high-school history teacher in his thirties who is unexpectedly elected President of Ukraine after a viral video filmed by one of his students shows him making a profane rant against government corruption in his country. The series ran for three seasons from 2015 to 2019, and a film adaptation was released in 2016. The series was produced by Kvartal 95, which was founded by Zelenskyy. It would become much more involved in Ukraine's actual politics; in 2018, a political party named after the television series was registered, and Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine in 2019.