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.

Kirill Serebrennikov (en russe : Кирилл Серебренников), né le 7 septembre 1969 à Rostov-sur-le-Don, est un metteur en scène et cinéaste russe.

1969年、ロシア、ロストフ・ナ・ドヌ生まれ。演出家・映画監督。ロストフの劇場で演出家を務めたのち、2000年代以降はモスクワ芸術座などで、数多くの舞台の演出を手がける。2012年には若くして権威あるゴーゴリ・センターの芸術監督に指名され、鬼才演出家として頭角を現す。2017年、国からの演劇予算の不正流用を疑われて詐欺罪で起訴され、自宅軟禁に。かねてより政権に批判的な姿勢を明らかにしていたため、この逮捕を不当な政治弾圧と見る向きもあり、演劇界・映画界からセレブレンニコフを支持する声が上がった。2018年8月にフランス芸術文化勲章最高位を受章。2020年6月10日に有罪判決が下され、執行猶予付き3年の刑及び罰金が科され、保護観察下に置かれる。2022年3月、容疑取り消し裁判の決着後にロシアから亡命し、現在はドイツなどを拠点に制作を続けている。主な監督作に、第69回カンヌ国際映画祭フランソワ・シャレ賞受賞作『The Student（英題）』（16/未）、第71回カンヌ国際映画祭サウンドトラック賞最優秀作曲家賞受賞作『LETO -レト-』（18）、第74回カンヌ国際映画祭コンペティション部門出品作『インフル病みのペトロフ家』（21）など。本作『チャイコフスキーの妻 』（22）は、第75回カンヌ国際映画祭コンペティション部門に選出された。さらにベン・ウィショーがロシアの活動家、エドワルド・リモノフを演じた最新作『リモノフ』（24）は、第77回カンヌ国際映画祭コンペティション部門にて上映されるなど、今世界から最も注目される演出家・映画監督の一人として躍進を続けている。