
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.
Acting (11 movies)

Protest Day
2012

What Beat You Nothing
2021

Stanislavski: Lust for Life
2021

Room 999
2023

Hardcore Henry
2015

I Am Katya Golubeva
2016

Das Haus der guten Geister
2020

Outside the System
2013

7
2019

Stage — Rostov
2021

Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia
2019
Directing (35 movies)

Playing the Victim
2006

Crush
2009

Limonov: The Ballad
2024

Undressed
1998

Betrayal
2012

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Etude
2016

Phonograph
2016
Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine
1993

Ragin
2004

Tchaikovsky's Wife
2022

Out of the Box
2021

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
2025

The Student
2016

Yuri's Day
2008

Bed Stories
2003

Replacing Dogs with Mixing
1993
Secrets of the Thunderstorm
1998

Leto
2018

Tabakov. A Reflexion
2010

After Leto
2018

Petrov's Flu
2021

Gentlemen Golovlevs
2006

The Black Monk
2022
The Pillow Man
2007
The Philistines
2004
The Threepenny Opera
2009

Some Explicit Polaroids
2005

Don Carlo
2024

Пластилин
2003

Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral
2016

Forest
2006
Naked Pioneer
2005
Terrorism
2002

Boris Godunov
2025
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Replacing Dogs with Mixing | 1993 | Screenplay | 
| Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine | 1993 | Writer | 
| Undressed | 1998 | Screenplay | 
| Ragin | 2004 | Screenplay | 
| Crush | 2009 | Screenplay | 
| Tabakov. A Reflexion | 2010 | Writer | 
| Alexander Sokurov. Temptation | 2012 | Writer | 
| Betrayal | 2012 | Writer | 
| #WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia? | 2015 | Producer | 
| The Student | 2016 | Screenplay | 
| Etude | 2016 | Screenplay | 
| Phonograph | 2016 | Screenplay | 
| Leto | 2018 | Screenplay | 
| Petrov's Flu | 2021 | Screenplay | 
| Out of the Box | 2021 | Screenplay | 
| Tchaikovsky's Wife | 2022 | Screenplay | 
| Tchaikovsky's Wife | 2022 | Producer | 
| Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 | Screenplay | 
| The Disappearance of Josef Mengele | 2025 | Screenplay |