Kirill Serebrennikov
Directing
Born: September 7, 1969 (age 56) · Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Hardcore Henry
2015
Leto
2018
The Student
2016
Petrov's Flu
2021
Limonov: The Ballad
2024
Tchaikovsky's Wife
2022
Playing the Victim
2006
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
2025
Betrayal
2012
Yuri's Day
2008
Great Performances
1971
Crush
2009
Photos (1)
Movies (6)
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (7)
Directing (57)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Director
Leto
Director
Rostov-Father
Director
Boris Godunov
Director
Limonov: The Ballad
Director
The Student
Director
Tchaikovsky's Wife
Director
The Murderer's Diary
Director
Petrov's Flu
Director
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Osterfestspiele Salzburg Felsenreitschule
Director
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Osterfestspiele Salzburg Felsenreitschule
Stage Director
Gentlemen Golovlevs
Director
Yuri's Day
Director
Betrayal
Director
Gogol Online: Fear
Stage Director
Out of the Box
Director
Nureyev - A ballet by Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov
Director
Undressed
Director
After Leto
Director
The Black Monk
Stage Director
The Black Monk
Director
Gogol Online: Kafka
Stage Director
Gogol Online: Kafka
Director
Ragin
Director
Outside the System
Director
Crush
Director
Playing the Victim
Director
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Director
The Philistines
Stage Director
The Philistines
Director
Naked Pioneer
Stage Director
Naked Pioneer
Director
The Pillow Man
Stage Director
The Pillow Man
Director
Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral
Stage Director
Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral
Director
The Marksman
Stage Director
The Marksman
Director
Forest
Stage Director
Forest
Director
Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time
Stage Director
Some Explicit Polaroids
Stage Director
Some Explicit Polaroids
Director
Plasticine
Director
Parsifal
Stage Director
Terrorism
Stage Director
Terrorism
Director
Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero
Director
Replacing Dogs with Mixing
Director
Man Without a Name
Director
Phonograph
Director
Tabakov. A Reflexion
Director
Don Carlo
Director
Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story
Stage Director
Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story
Director
Bed Stories
Director
Little tragedies
Director
Writing (18)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Screenplay
Leto
Screenplay
Rostov-Father
Writer
Limonov: The Ballad
Screenplay
The Student
Screenplay
Tchaikovsky's Wife
Screenplay
The Murderer's Diary
Writer
Petrov's Flu
Screenplay
Betrayal
Writer
Out of the Box
Screenplay
Undressed
Screenplay
After Leto
Author
Ragin
Screenplay
Crush
Screenplay
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Writer
Replacing Dogs with Mixing
Screenplay
Phonograph
Screenplay
Tabakov. A Reflexion
Writer
Producing (2)
Other Crew (9)
Rostov-Father
Creator
Boris Godunov
Set Designer
Boris Godunov
Costume Design
The Murderer's Diary
Creator
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Osterfestspiele Salzburg Felsenreitschule
Music Director
Undressed
Costume Design
Lucky Case
Production Design
Trinity Sunday
Thanks
Little tragedies
Costume Designer