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Sluga Naroda

Servant of the People

Olexiy Kiryushchenko
Ukraine, 2016, 100 Min

Political satire from the Ukraine: an idealistic yet inexperienced President’s efforts seem futile in a country long-dominated by a cartel of oligarchs. That is until he decides to collaborate with an imprisoned politician who knows the power structures of his country better than anyone and will stop at nothing to reform them.

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Protagonist Vasily Goloborodko is a committed and outspoken grammar school teacher. Unexpectedly elected as President after a video of him launching a verbal attack on the Ukraine's politicians goes viral, he sets about defeating corruption only to come up against the all-encompassing power of the country's oligarchs. And yet he stumbles upon a remarkable adviser in the form of a former Prime Minister, now imprisoned on charges of corruption and abuse of office. He knows the workings of the oligarchs and has an idea of how they might be tamed. With its striking, almost cartoon-like humour, the film represents an interesting take on how a popular movement might serve as a counterweight to the abuse of political power.

SLUGA NARODA is based on a successful YouTube series of the same name, which has generated nine million views to date and is available to viewers on Netflix. So successful has the series proved that remake rights were recently purchased by Fox Studios. WMH

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Andriy Yakovliev, Oleksiy Kiriushchenko, Yiuri Kostiuk, Yuri Mykulienko, Dmytro Hryhorenko, Dmytro Kozlov, Oleksandr Brahin
Kamera
Sergiy Koshel, Alexander Glinchenk
Ton
Olexiy Bevz
Schnitt
Michael Torgomyan
Ausstattung
Vadim Shinkaryov
Musik
Andriy Kiryushchenko
Darsteller
Volodymyr Zelensiy, Stanislav Boklan, Yevgen Koshoviy, Olga Zhukovtsova, Heorhy Povolotsky, Volodymyr Horiansky, Dmytro Lalienkov
Produzent
Volodymyr Zelensky, Boryn Shefir, Andriy Yakovlev, Sehiy Shefir, Oleksiy Kiriushchenko
Produktion
Kvartal 95
Kontakt
Kvartal 95
Irina Pobiedonostseva
Belorusskaya Str. 3, ap. 110
04050 Kiev
Ukraine
+38.06.72.36.12 94
www.kvartal95.cin
irina@kvartal95.com
Olexiy Kiryushchenko

Olexiy Kiryushchenko - born in 1964 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. After studying at the Boris Shchukin Theater College in Russia he worked as theatre director and actor in theatres and films. Since 2004 he has been directing films and TV series and is also working as producer and screenwriter.

Movies
MY FAIR NANNY (2004, TV series)
GIRLS TALK (2013, TV series)
SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE (2015, TV series)
SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE 2 (2016, TV series)

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