Kirill Serebrennikov

Limonov: The Ballad

A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Release Date:2024-09-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:50

Tchaikovsky's Wife

Antonina Milyukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.

Release Date:2022-11-11

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:54

The Black Monk

Andrey Kovrin, overworked intellectual who dreams of liberty and glory, decides to retire to the country house of his old friend Pesotsky and his daughter Tanya to get some rest. As he sits in the garden, he sees the ghost of a monk, who will haunt his stay and eventually drive him mad. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

Release Date:2022-07-09

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Parsifal

The male circle of the Grail Knights is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the counter-realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously been rejected by the circle of knights. With the help of seductive women, above all Kundry, he succeeds in bringing down the knights. He is even able to tempt the Grail King Amfortas into a misstep. He steals his sacred spear and inflicts an incurable wound. As a result, Amfortas' ritual duty of unveiling the Grail has become an ordeal. Only a pure fool is destined to undo the Grail King's fall from grace and reverse its devastating consequences.

Release Date:2021-12-26

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Out of the Box

Abstraction about love and search, oblivion and rebirth. The story unfolds in a conventional space that vaguely resembles our world - one scene smoothly changes into another, and with it the characters of the characters and their relationships, music and visual images change.

Release Date:2021-12-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Gogol Online: Fear

The story is about how an elderly Muscovite Lida and a young migrant worker Abu really fell in love with each other, but the society around them did not accept this love.

Release Date:2020-04-05

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Trinity Sunday

In a love triangle there are always three participants: the torturer, the saviour and the victim, who change roles depending on the situation. There is no room to condemn anyone, there is no right and no guilt. A betrayal can happen with everyone. Margo admits to her husband George that she betrayed him with her student Anton. Her confession changes the life of three people. At first it seems that it is a usual story, but gradually it emerges that everything that happens to Margo has a deeper meaning. She begins to understand God, family, and love. She starts to realize how these values correspond with the eastern world, where she has grown up, and with the western world where she now lives.

Release Date:2019-10-24

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:5

Lucky Case

A group of friends suddenly hit jackpot in a state lottery so now they must decide how to spend the money. Unfortunately their wives don't really agree with all the plans.

Release Date:2017-03-16

Department:Art

Job:Production Design

Vote Count:8

Gogol Online: Kafka

During his life, Franz Kafka was a modest closed clerk, literature was his secret passion. By his own admission, he felt Flaubert, Dostoevsky and Gogol as his "blood brothers", but he bequeathed to burn his manuscripts. However, friends violated the last will of the author. Kafka's works, filled with bizarre images and paradoxical plots, were published posthumously and brought him worldwide fame. Today, Kafka is perceived as a brilliant prophet of the madness of the 20th century, and his name has become synonymous with a special type of absurdity.

Release Date:2016-05-24

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story

Young and enthusiastic Alexander Aduev comes to St. Petersburg from the province, ready to conquer the whole world. Very soon all his ideals were crushed, and he himself repeated the fate of his practical and impassive uncle Peter.

Release Date:2016-05-17

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Etude

An etude based on an episode of matchmaking from Sergei Parajanov's film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".

Release Date:2016-05-06

Department:Art

Job:Production Design

Phonograph

Yuli Ivanovich Blok is a music lover and enthusiast of early sound recording, who in 1889 was the first to bring Edison's phonograph to Russia, came up with the idea to record the great pianist Anton Rubinstein's playing on a phonograph. But the pianist flatly refused to sign up. Then those present, among whom was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, just started messing around with the device, recording everything that comes to mind. The film is based on a famous case that occurred in January 1890.

Release Date:2016-05-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero

From Alla Demidova's book "Akhmatova Mirrors": "When I began to decipher the "Poem without a hero", the more I found doubles in it, which, in turn, bifurcated and so on — to infinity (the same thing happens if you approach the wall of the mirror hall with a mirror and see in it an infinite a series of reflections), the more clearly I understood that it was probably not necessary to literally decipher it. Specific persons are not so important in the "Poem", the fragrance of time is important, because, among other things, a huge layer of culture of an entire epoch has entered into the "Poem", which for many young people today has become a long-past history."

Release Date:2016-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral

On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. And if the farewell to the composer quietly went against the backdrop of the farewell to the dictator that swept the whole country, then in the play everything is the opposite - Prokofiev's music is in the center, and it is interrupted by the stories of those people who would probably ignore Stalin's funeral and went to say goodbye to the great composer.

Release Date:2016-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Vote Count:1

The Student

A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.

Release Date:2016-04-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:153

Outside the System

On the day of the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, an evening dedication "Outside the System" took place on the Main Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. The production is based on documentary material — letters, memoirs, memoirs, diaries, recordings of rehearsals. The fate of the founder of the Moscow Art Theater is reflected in the testimonies of his greatest contemporaries, friends, students and opponents.

Release Date:2013-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Character:

Betrayal

While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.

Release Date:2012-08-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:37

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation

The film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received worldwide recognition due to his incredible talent

Release Date:2012-05-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Crush

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

Release Date:2009-11-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

The Threepenny Opera

It was originally conceived as luxuriously as only beggars could imagine it in their dreams. But then, with the change of different life circumstances, it became so cheap that beggars could pay for it. Based on a play by Bertolt Brecht.

Release Date:2009-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Yuri's Day

Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.

Release Date:2008-08-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

Playing the Victim

A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.

Release Date:2006-06-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:54

Naked Pioneer

A musical battle mystery with a cheerful war and pure love, with circus attractions and a real Lyuboffyorlova, as well as the recorded phenomenon of the Blessed Virgin Mary and strategic night flights of an absolutely naked pioneer!

Release Date:2005-06-09

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Some Explicit Polaroids

Captured in "explicit polaroid pictures", the characters of Ravenhill's play are a former social rebel who served time for assassination, his ex–girlfriend who made it "from hippie to yuppie", a nightclub stripper abused by her boyfriend, a gay man dying of AIDS and a sex slave he bought. This is a play about the vicissitudes of love, which, "without knowing shame", can arise from any "bullshit".

Release Date:2005-05-14

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Vote Count:1

Ragin

Based on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself.

Release Date:2004-12-23

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5

Forest

Alexander Ostrovsky's textbook comedy in the modern interpretation of Kirill Serebrennikov: about the price of freedom and love in the same ruble equivalent.

Release Date:2004-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

The Philistines

Production by Kirill Serebrennikov based on the play by Maxim Gorky.

Release Date:2004-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Bed Stories

Seven interconnecting stories that take place in Russian bedrooms. These include a son visiting his complaining bedridden mother, a middle-aged couple bickering, one soldier bullying another in an army barracks, a rich childless housewife picking up the soldier for rough sex while her husband has a tryst with another man arranged by computer, and a wife who asks to be handcuffed to her bed while being videotaped by her lover.

Release Date:2003-12-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Terrorism

The Presnyakov brothers, playwrights, wrote a play about how terrorism arises. From what depths of the human subconscious? Or is he born in the usual rhythm of everyday everyday life? Kirill Serebrennikov turned the play into a tragic farce and made a powerful performance on the malice of the day.

Release Date:2002-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Undressed

The film takes place in the attic of an abandoned house, where the photographer and his model climb three times. Experiencing another situation, the characters perceive it in a new way every time: tenderness and violence, sincerity and lies, fantasy and reality...

Release Date:1998-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine

Documentary film in memory of Sergey Timofeev (10.05.1959 — 5.06.1993), founder of the Beijing Row-Row group, participant of the Art or Death partnership

Release Date:1993-05-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Disappearance

Mengele’s fugitive years in South America told from his point of view. The notorious Nazi doctor found refuge in South America at the end of WWII and was never captured. Mengele died in Brazil in 1979 without having been judged for his crimes.

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Don Carlo

Production of the Vienna State Opera, October 2024. Inspired by a visit to the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, director Kirill Serebrennikov brings the plot of Don Carlo into a contemporary context. He was also inspired by this institute for his stage design - after all, original objects from all eras and cultures are kept there and prepared and stored accordingly to protect them from decay.

Release Date:2024-10-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Room 999

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”

Release Date:2023-10-05

Character:Self

Vote Count:5

The Marksman

Max, a young hunter, must win a shooting competition to claim the hand of his beloved Agathe. But on the eve of the competition, seemingly having lost all shooting prowess, Max allows himself to be convinced by his rival Kaspar to make a pact with the devil to use seven magic bullets which never miss their target. Wagner said that Carl Maria von Weber’s early-Romantic gem was the most German of German operas. With touches of the eerie supernatural, Der Freischütz is an irresistible mix of colourful folklore, tender romance, and a passionate struggle between good and evil - all captured in Weber’s tuneful and dramatic score. Successful Russian theatre, opera and film director Kirill Serebrennikov makes his debut in Amsterdam. In his approach to the opera, the struggle for success is transposed from the world of hunters and that of artists.

Release Date:2022-06-25

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Petrov's Flu

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.

Release Date:2021-09-09

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:82

What Beat You Nothing

Alla Demidova ranks among the greatest actresses to have graced the Russian-language stage over the past six decades, as well as screens big and small. She's famous for her tragic characters. Perhaps because she, above all, understands the world as a realm of worries and sorrow?

Release Date:2021-08-31

Character:Self

Stage — Rostov

The debut of music critic Boris Barabanov as the showrunner of a new documentary series about the small homeland of big musicians. In the pilot series dedicated to Rostov-on-Don, Kirill Serebrennikov, Basta, Shym from "Casta", Vasya Oblomov, Sergey Pimenov ("PPK") and Viktor Pivtorypavlo ("Forbidden Drummers") talk about this city as a home, the first stage and starting station on the way to fame, the neighborhood of blatnyak and metal, hidden doorways, the first toilet actionism, endless southern rave and that "living in the past is the first step in the future."a sign of old age."

Release Date:2021-06-09

Character:self

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his powerful extraordinary talent he managed to stay a true artist and a free spirit within the harsh Soviet system. In the film contemporary theater and film directors (Kirill Serebrennikov, Katie Mitchell, Lev Dodin and others) show how Stanislavski's method affects their everyday work. Each of the directors finds his or her own reflection in the mirror of his genius. In search of an answer to the question whether modern theatre really needs Stanislavski they discover that art lacks its most essential part – the human being.

Release Date:2021-02-27

Character:Self

Das Haus der guten Geister

A documentary about the Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) in Germany.

Release Date:2020-04-20

7

The film was conceived as a story about the history of the Gogol Center Theater and the case of Kirill Serebrennikov. But the circumstances were different. This is a film about a film that could not be made.

Release Date:2019-12-05

Character:himself

Vote Count:7

.RU

Documentary montage film by Alexander Vartanov, a subjective look at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia

Release Date:2018-12-28

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:1

After Leto

The film tells about the time in which the characters of the movie "Leto" lived. Performer of the role of "Skeptic" Alexandr Kuznetsov interviews Natalya Naumenko, Artemy Troitsky, Igor Petrovsky, Seva Novgorodtsev and Andrey Tropillo about Russian rock, the 80s, Soviet youth, the Leningrad way of life and the spirit of that time. The conversations take place in the real locations of the movie "Leto", where the characters come to tell how everything was in reality, and plunge into nostalgia and praise or, on the contrary, criticize "artistic fiction".

Release Date:2018-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:4

Theatre Affair

In the spring of 2017, the Investigation Committee conducted the first searches in the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the “Serebrennikov case”, “the Seventh Studio case” or “The Platform case”. Six people, among whom is a world-famous director, are accused of having stolen more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances from the state. And for this they can go to jail for 10 years. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out the essence of this matter. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. Studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever succeeded. They understood why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, went to all court sessions.

Release Date:2018-08-29

Character:himself

Vote Count:1

Leto

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Release Date:2018-06-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:311

Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time

Pechorin, a young officer, embarks on a journey across the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, on a path set by his passionate encounters. Disillusioned and careless, he inflicts pain upon himself and the women around him… The story, based on the larger-than-life hero Pechorin, is adapted from Mikhail Lermontov’s literary masterpiece in three separate stories recounting his heartbreaking betrayals. Is Pechorin a real hero? Or is he a man like any other? This brand new production by choreographer Yuri Possokhov is a tragic poetic journey that can only be seen at the Bolshoi. Filmed live on April 9th 2017.

Release Date:2017-04-09

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

vDud

Yury Dud interviews famous figures, including musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and businesspeople.

Release Date:2017-02-07

Character:Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

I Am Katya Golubeva

The question is, whether Katya Golubeva, an icon of the European underground cinema, determined her fate with the parts she played, or the fate of her characters affected her own fate?

Release Date:2016-10-01

Hardcore Henry

Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore Henry takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.

Release Date:2015-09-12

Character:Tank Driver #1

Vote Count:2440

#WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia?

In the summer of 2014, a group of actors of the Gogol Center (Moscow) and the State Academic Drama Theater named after Fedor Volkov (Yaroslavl), headed by Kirill Serebrennikov, went on an expedition to the Yaroslavl region. The purpose of the expedition is to prepare a play based on the poem by N.A. Nekrasov "Who is to live well in Russia". The theater studied life, read a Nekrasov poem together with residents of villages and cities, wrote down documentary monologues of people, asked each person one of the main questions of the poem and today's life: “Who should live well in Russia?” The artist of "The Seventh Studio" Alexander Gorchilin and cameraman Ksenia Sereda recorded every second of this amazing research trip.

Release Date:2015-04-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Protest Day

A day in the life of a typical character of Russian history, "the little man": a school teacher of Russian language and literature. An intellectual and his problems at the beginning of the 21st century. A day in the life of the country which Yesenin loved. About a country that still has hope...

Release Date:2012-05-31

Vote Count:4

Tabakov. A Reflexion

Oleg Tabakov – in a frank conversation about the problems of Russian theater and modern drama, in memories of loved ones.

Release Date:2010-07-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Pillow Man

Are the manuscripts actually burning? Is the artist responsible for his works? Is the "child's tear" important in the modern world?

Release Date:2007-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Gentlemen Golovlevs

"Gentlemen Golovlevs" is a social novel from the life of a noble family. The disintegration of bourgeois society, as in a mirror, was reflected in the disintegration of the family. The whole complex of moral relations that cement family ties and regulate moral norms of behavior is collapsing. The topic of family becomes topical. The attention of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin in this novel is entirely devoted to the analysis of deformities, the study of causes and the display of consequences.

Release Date:2006-06-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

List of Lovers of the RF

"List of Lovers of the RF" is a live-action series. The plot of each film is based on real events that happened to the participants of the Russian TV talk show "Windows" ("Okna"). The brightest and most talented representatives of young Russian filmmaking are invited to participate in the new TNT project. Each of them will make one film. The theme of the stories is love, the heroes are residents of modern Russia.

Release Date:2003-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Plasticine

A recorded play based on "Plasticine" by Vasily Sigarev.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The School for Scandal

A talk show

Release Date:2002-10-02

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

The Murderer's Diary

Graduate students in the Historical Museum find a diary dated 1919. In the diary, the author confesses to the murder of five people. The terrible deeds of the past are the key to unraveling a number of crimes committed in our day.

Release Date:2002-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Rostov-Father

A stylish arrangement in a modern way of a number of classic love stories – "Carmen", "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Don Quixote", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Hamlet". Each episode is a complete story with its own characters, they are united only by the place of action – the city of Rostov–on-Don. It is always summer here, women are beautiful and men are courageous, there is a high sky and a blue river, everyone is happy here or could be happy…

Release Date:2001-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Turk

Episode Count:10

Swallow

Based on the works of Nina Sadur, in which mysticism, psychological drama, and detective are intricately intertwined.

Release Date:1999-05-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Secrets of the Thunderstorm

The story of the boy Vanya Proshkin, our contemporary, in whom, after being exposed to a thunderstorm, his analytical abilities, unusual for his age, opened up.

Release Date:1998-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Notes of a Madman, or the Life of Aksentiy Poprishchin, Titular Adviser

A television one-man show based on the works of N.V.Gogol.

Release Date:1996-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Stage Director

Replacing Dogs with Mixing

The professor gives his student a lesson, during which the relationship between them gradually changes.

Release Date:1993-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

City and Music

About the fate of musicians, songwriters, producers from different cities of Russia and the countries of the former USSR.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

aspekte

Release Date:1965-10-17

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1