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Netflix and other platforms will give the series he made before Zelensky became president

In the midst of the war unleashed in Ukraine, after the Russian invasion on February 24, and while the positive image of the president Volodymyr Zelensky does not stop growing, the fiction series that the president starred in 2015 also experiences an increase in sales. “Servant of the People” It will be broadcast on different platforms worldwide, including Netflix, which will once again offer the successful satire among its titles.

As published by the German chain dw, the rights of the series correspond to the Swedish agency echo rights, who revealed that in recent days he received a large number of requests to broadcast the series. “We have signed 15 contracts. And we are in negotiations with 20 more countries”, confirmed the co-founder of the agency, Nicola Soderlund,

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“We have had some interested parties from Latin America. We are talking to different partners in the United States, including Netflix,” Söderlund said. And he added: “People want to know who this man is.” From the first day, several television channels began to negotiate the transmission of the series, among which Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, ANT 1 in Greece and PRO TV in Romania stand out.

“They ask for it and it’s back! The People’s Server is again available on Netflix in the United States,” announced the renowned American streaming platform on Twitter. Although the details of the contracts are unknown, given its confidentiality, the rights to the fiction cost around “one million euros”, according to the director of the Fredrik af Malmborg agency.

In a clear message of support for the country led by Zelensky, Eccho Rights announced a donation of 50,000 euros that will go to the Ukrainian Red Cross and also announced that it has removed all series of Russian origin from its billboards.

the village servant

The Servant of the People, premiered in 2015 and tells the story of a kyiv high school teacher, Vasil Goloborodko (Zelensky), who inadvertently becomes president, after a video of him goes viral in which he argues with a colleague about the miseries of politics.

The series made by Zelensky’s own Kvartel 95 studios lasted three seasons and also spawned a movie.

Such was the great popularity of the character played by Zelensky and the show, with an audience of nine million viewers, that it allowed the president to compete years later for the presidency. Even the party that the actor founded shares the same name as that of the series.

“The people want to see a president like Vasil Goloborodko, with the same moral values. They are tired of the establishment. The people want something new”Zelensky would explain to the press during the presidential campaign.

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Source: Elcomercio

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