Kirill Serebrennikov
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.
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Movies (66)
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold @ Salzburg Easter Festival, Felsenreitschule 2026
2026 · Director, Stage Director, Music Director
Nureyev - A ballet by Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov
2026 · Director
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
2025 · Screenplay, Director
Boris Godunov
2025 · Director, Set Designer, Costume Design
Fade:In:Out
2025 · Himself
Don Carlo
2024 · Director
Limonov: The Ballad
2024 · Director, Screenplay
Room 999
2023 · Self
Tchaikovsky's Wife
2022 · Screenplay, Producer, Director
The Black Monk
2022 · Stage Director, Director
The Marksman
2022 · Stage Director, Director
Parsifal
2021 · Stage Director
Out of the Box
2021 · Director, Screenplay
Petrov's Flu
2021 · Director, Screenplay
What Beat You Nothing
2021 · Self
Stage — Rostov
2021 · self
Stanislavski: Lust for Life
2021 · Self
Man Without a Name
2021 · Director
Gogol Online: Fear
2020 · Stage Director
Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia
2019
7
2019 · himself
Trinity Sunday
2019 · Thanks
.RU
2018 · Self (archive footage)
After Leto
2018 · Author, Director
Theatre Affair
2018 · himself
Leto
2018 · Director, Screenplay
Little tragedies
2017 · Director, Costume Designer
Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time
2017 · Stage Director
Lucky Case
2017 · Production Design
Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral
2016 · Stage Director, Director
I Am Katya Golubeva
2016
Gogol Online: Kafka
2016 · Stage Director, Director
Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story
2016 · Stage Director, Director
Etude
2016 · Screenplay, Director, Production Design
Phonograph
2016 · Director, Screenplay
Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero
2016 · Director
The Student
2016 · Director, Screenplay
Hardcore: Misión extrema
2015 · Tank Driver #1
#WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia?
2015 · Producer
Outside the System
2013 · Director
Betrayal
2012 · Writer, Director
Protest Day
2012
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012 · Director, Writer
Tabakov. A Reflexion
2010 · Director, Writer
Crush
2009 · Director, Screenplay
The Threepenny Opera
2009 · Stage Director, Director
Yuri's Day
2008 · Director
The Pillow Man
2007 · Stage Director, Director
The Philistines
2007 · Stage Director, Director
Gentlemen Golovlevs
2006 · Director
Playing the Victim
2006 · Director
Forest
2006 · Stage Director, Director
Naked Pioneer
2005 · Stage Director, Director
Some Explicit Polaroids
2005 · Stage Director, Director
Ragin
2004 · Screenplay, Director
Bed Stories
2003 · Director
Plasticine
2003 · Director
Terrorism
2002 · Stage Director, Director
Undressed
1998 · Director, Screenplay, Costume Design
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 · Writer, Director
Replacing Dogs with Mixing
1993 · Screenplay, Director
Das Haus der guten Geister
After
· Director, Producer, Screenplay
Urninge
· Director
TV shows (8)
List of Lovers of the RF
2003 · Director
The Murderer's Diary
2002 · Director, Writer, Creator
The School for Scandal
2002
Rostov-Father
2001 · Director, Writer, Creator
Swallow
1999 · Director, Creator
Great Performances
1971 · Self
aspekte
1965 · Self
City and Music
· Director, Creator