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Master and Servant

Name: Master and Servant
Director: Dmitri Kesayants
Released: 1962
Duration: 20 min

Representation Score

3.8/10

Limited

1962

Director

Dmitri Kesayants

Runtime

20 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Master and Servant primarily functions as a class-based comedy centered on the tension between a stingy employer and the workers who navigate his restrictive contracts. Despite lacking modern multi-layered markers, the film highlights the working-class resistance to absolute authority. However, the scope remains within traditional social roles.

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Category Breakdown

Does Master and Servant have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film does not include any LGBTQ+ characters or non-cisgender identities. It seems to follow the traditional social structures of the 1962 era.

How does Master and Servant portray gender?

Fair

The main conflict is driven by male characters dealing with labor and hierarchy. While it challenges authority, the story stays within a male-centric framework.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Master and Servant?

Fair

Set in the Armenian SSR, the film offers a non-Anglo-Saxon cultural perspective. However, the representation is consistent with its specific historical and geographic context.

How does Master and Servant represent religion and culture?

Good

The story criticizes exploitative labor and systemic greed through an anti-capitalist lens. It portrays the struggle against a stingy master as a form of ability to act.

Does Master and Servant include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters with visible or invisible disabilities in the narrative.

Present on Screen

The film provides a non-Anglo-Saxon cultural perspective through its Armenian setting.
It offers a critique of exploitative labor and systemic greed.
The narrative centers the resistance of the working class against restrictive authority.

Limited or Absent

The story lacks representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-cisgender characters.
The narrative framework is heavily male-centric, focusing on male-driven conflicts.
There is no visible representation of characters with disabilities.

Official Synopsis

Manas is hired to work for master Tatos till the spring, "when the cuckoo will call". There is one condition of the contract: if anyone of them gets annoyed with another, he loses everything. Unable to stand the day-and-night work for stingy master, Manas leaves without a pense of salary for months work. Next servant who knocks at Tatos's door is Manas's small brother, smart Simon.

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