About

Known credits:
90
Birthday:
1969-09-07
Place of birth:
Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Website:
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Kirill Serebrennikov

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2023 Room 999 Actor Self 59
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2021 What Beat You Nothing Actor Self N/A
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2021 Stage — Rostov Actor self N/A
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2021 Stanislavski: Lust for Life Actor Self N/A
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2020 Das Haus der guten Geister Actor N/A
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2019 7 Actor himself 59
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2018 .RU Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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2018 Theatre Affair Actor himself 59
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2016 I Am Katya Golubeva Actor N/A
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2015 Hardcore Henry Actor Tank Driver #1 63
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2013 Outside the System Actor N/A
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2012 Protest Day Actor 58
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Directing
2024 Don Carlo Directing Director N/A
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2024 Limonov: The Ballad Directing Director 59
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2022 Tchaikovsky’s Wife Directing Director 59
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2022 The Black Monk Directing Director N/A
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2022 The Black Monk Directing Stage Director N/A
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2022 The Marksman Directing Stage Director N/A
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2021 Parsifal Directing Stage Director N/A
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2021 Out of the Box Directing Director N/A
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2021 Petrov's Flu Directing Director 59
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2020 Gogol Online: Fear Directing Stage Director N/A
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2018 After Leto Directing Director 59
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2018 Leto Directing Director 64
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2017 Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time Directing Stage Director N/A
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2016 Gogol Online: Kafka Directing Stage Director N/A
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2016 Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story Directing Stage Director N/A
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2016 Phonograph Directing Director N/A
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2016 Etude Directing Director N/A
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2016 Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero Directing Stage Director N/A
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2016 Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral Directing Stage Director 59
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2016 The Student Directing Director 60
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2013 Outside the System Directing Stage Director N/A
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2012 Betrayal Directing Director 59
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2012 Alexander Sokurov. Temptation Directing Director N/A
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2010 Tabakov. A Reflexion Directing Director 59
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2009 Crush Directing Director 58
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2009 The Threepenny Opera Directing Director N/A
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2009 The Threepenny Opera Directing Stage Director N/A
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2008 Yuri's Day Directing Director 59
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2007 The Pillow Man Directing Stage Director N/A
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2007 The Pillow Man Directing Director N/A
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2006 Gentlemen Golovlevs Directing Director N/A
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2006 Playing the Victim Directing Director 59
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2005 Naked Pioneer Directing Stage Director N/A
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2005 Some Explicit Polaroids Directing Director 58
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2005 Some Explicit Polaroids Directing Stage Director 58
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2004 Ragin Directing Director 58
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2004 Forest Directing Stage Director N/A
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2004 The Philistines Directing Director N/A
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2004 The Philistines Directing Stage Director N/A
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2003 Bed Stories Directing Director 59
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2002 Some Explicit Polaroids Directing Director N/A
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2002 Terrorism Directing Stage Director N/A
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2002 The Murderer's Diary Directing Director N/A
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2001 Rostov-Father Directing Director N/A
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1999 Swallow Directing Director N/A
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1998 Undressed Directing Director N/A
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1998 Secrets of the Thunderstorm Directing Director N/A
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1996 Notes of a Madman, or the Life of Aksentiy Poprishchin, Titular Adviser Directing Stage Director N/A
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1993 Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine Directing Director N/A
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1993 Replacing Dogs with Mixing Directing Director N/A
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Disappearance Directing Director N/A
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City and Music Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2024 Limonov: The Ballad Writing Screenplay 59
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2022 Tchaikovsky’s Wife Writing Screenplay 59
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2021 Out of the Box Writing Screenplay N/A
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2021 Petrov's Flu Writing Screenplay 59
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2018 After Leto Writing Author 59
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2018 Leto Writing Screenplay 64
Fair
2016 Etude Writing Screenplay N/A
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2016 Phonograph Writing Screenplay N/A
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2016 The Student Writing Screenplay 60
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2012 Betrayal Writing Writer 59
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2012 Alexander Sokurov. Temptation Writing Writer N/A
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2010 Tabakov. A Reflexion Writing Writer 59
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2009 Crush Writing Screenplay 58
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2004 Ragin Writing Screenplay 58
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2002 The Murderer's Diary Writing Writer N/A
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2001 Rostov-Father Writing Writer N/A
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1998 Undressed Writing Screenplay N/A
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1993 Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine Writing Writer N/A
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1993 Replacing Dogs with Mixing Writing Screenplay N/A
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Disappearance Writing Screenplay N/A
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Production
2022 Tchaikovsky’s Wife Production Producer 59
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2015 #WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia? Production Producer N/A
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Art
2017 Lucky Case Art Production Design 58
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2016 Etude Art Production Design N/A
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Costume & Make-Up
1998 Undressed Costume & Make-Up Costume Design N/A
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Crew
2019 Trinity Sunday Crew Thanks 58
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