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Kirill Serebrennikov

Biography

Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov (Russian: Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников; born 7 September 1969; Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian stage and film director and theatre designer. Since 2012, he has been the artistic director of the Gogol Center in Moscow. He has been described as one of Russia's leading theatre directors.

Serebrennikov was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR to a Jewish father and a Ukrainian mother. Having graduated from Rostov State University with majors in physics in 1992. Serebrennikov had no formal theatre education prior to his stage director debut in 1994. He went on directing music videos and commercials. In 2001, he staged his first production in Moscow. Serebrennikov has staged drama productions in Moscow Chekhov Theatre, Latvian National Theatre, Theatre of Nations. He has been active in opera staging productions for the Mariinsky Theatre, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia, where he has also been a stage director and a designer for a ballet, Komische Oper Berlin and Stuttgart Opera in Germany. Serebrennikov is one of the artistic directors of Territory Festival in Moscow. Since 2008, he is a professor of the Moscow Art Theatre School, where he has a class of actors and directors. His films have been screened at Cannes Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, and the Warsaw International Film Festival where his film Yuri's Day received the Grand Prix.

In 2012, he was appointed artistic director of The Gogol Center. On 23 May 2017, Serebrennikov's apartment and the Gogol Center facilities were raided by law enforcement agencies in connection with an alleged embezzlement at the Seventh Studio, a non-profit organization established by Serebrennikov. While no charges against Serebrennikov have been filed, some of Russia's most prominent cultural figures saw the publicized raid of his apartment as a political gesture, discouraging Serebrennikov and others from criticizing the government. (Serebrennikov had criticised the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and has spoken out in support of Russia’s LGBT community.) On 22 August 2017, Serebrennikov was detained by the Investigative Committee of Russia, suspected of masterminding a fraud scheme involving a state subsidy the Seventh Studio received from the government of Russia from 2011 to 2014. In a verdict condemned by the Human Rights Watch, Serebrennikov was convicted in June 2020, fined, and given a suspended sentence. Despite being in a supposed house arrest in Russia, Serebrennikov arrived to Hamburg in January 2022.

Actor

Hardcore Henry

2015

as Tank Driver #1

Protest Day

2012

Documentaries

Room 999

2023

as Self

What Beat You Nothing

2021

as Self

Stage — Rostov

2021

as self

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

2021

as Self

Das Haus der guten Geister

2020

2019

as himself

.RU

2018

as Self (archive footage)

Theatre Affair

2018

as himself

I Am Katya Golubeva

2016

Outside the System

2013

Directing

Don Carlo

2024

Director

Limonov: The Ballad

2024

Director

Tchaikovsky’s Wife

2022

Director

The Black Monk

2022

Stage Director

The Black Monk

2022

Director

The Marksman

2022

Stage Director

Parsifal

2021

Stage Director

Out of the Box

2021

Director

Petrov's Flu

2021

Director

Gogol Online: Fear

2020

Stage Director

After Leto

2018

Director

Leto

2018

Director

Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time

2017

Stage Director

Gogol Online: Kafka

2016

Stage Director

Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story

2016

Stage Director

Etude

2016

Director

Phonograph

2016

Director

Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero

2016

Stage Director

Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral

2016

Stage Director

The Student

2016

Director

Outside the System

2013

Stage Director

Betrayal

2012

Director

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation

2012

Director

Tabakov. A Reflexion

2010

Director

Crush

2009

Director

The Threepenny Opera

2009

Stage Director

The Threepenny Opera

2009

Director

Yuri's Day

2008

Director

The Pillow Man

2007

Stage Director

The Pillow Man

2007

Director

Gentlemen Golovlevs

2006

Director

Playing the Victim

2006

Director

Naked Pioneer

2005

Stage Director

Some Explicit Polaroids

2005

Stage Director

Some Explicit Polaroids

2005

Director

Ragin

2004

Director

Forest

2004

Stage Director

The Philistines

2004

Stage Director

The Philistines

2004

Director

Bed Stories

2003

Director

Some Explicit Polaroids

2002

Director

Terrorism

2002

Stage Director

Undressed

1998

Director

Secrets of the Thunderstorm

1998

Director

Notes of a Madman, or the Life of Aksentiy Poprishchin, Titular Adviser

1996

Stage Director

Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine

1993

Director

Replacing Dogs with Mixing

1993

Director

Disappearance

Director

Writing

Limonov: The Ballad

2024

Screenplay

Tchaikovsky’s Wife

2022

Screenplay

Out of the Box

2021

Screenplay

Petrov's Flu

2021

Screenplay

After Leto

2018

Author

Leto

2018

Screenplay

Etude

2016

Screenplay

Phonograph

2016

Screenplay

The Student

2016

Screenplay

Betrayal

2012

Writer

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation

2012

Writer

Tabakov. A Reflexion

2010

Writer

Crush

2009

Screenplay

Ragin

2004

Screenplay

Undressed

1998

Screenplay

Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine

1993

Writer

Replacing Dogs with Mixing

1993

Screenplay

Disappearance

Screenplay

Kirill Serebrennikov

Actor

Videos

Documentaries

Directing

Production

Writing

Crew

Art