
In July, I am going to direct The Black Monk in Avignon, then I will finish shooting Limonov, which is based on the novel by Emmanuel Carrère. In June, I have to stage an opera in Amsterdam, The Freischütz. For my part, I have no more sources of income in Russia: I mainly work elsewhere. It is important for you to know that you will be able to return? I have done everything that was asked of me. From the very beginning, I have always wanted to respect the law. I can leave Russia and come back as I please.
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I have been given permission to go abroad for professional reasons. The court of justice has closed the case. "Sometimes a cucumber is just a cucumber a banana is just a banana." Were you able to leave Moscow legally? "You don't have to see a meaning in everything," he said. Sebrennikov met with Le Monde at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, a city that is dear to him. Dressed in a camouflage hoodie with bright flashes of orange, Mr. His 2017 arrest sparked a wave of international support. His country's justice system accused him of having embezzled public subsidies while he was running the Gogol Center, a laboratory of contemporary creativity popular with Moscow youth.
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On March 28, the 52-year-old filmmaker learned that he could leave Russia, following long years of trial and house arrest. In addition to this unprecedented coincidence are also the circumstances of his arrival in France, which are no less exceptional.

LENA GIOVANAZZI FOR "LE MONDE"Īs a free man, Kirill Serebrennikov will present his film Tchaikovsky's Wife in competition at the Cannes festival in May and the play The Black Monk, based on Chekhov's short story, in the Cour d'Honneur of the Palais des Papes, at the opening of the 76 th edition of the Avignon festival in July. Subscribers only Kirill Serebrennikov, Russian filmmaker and director, at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin, April 9, 2022. Serebrennikov, who was able to leave Moscow where he had been under house arrest, tells 'Le Monde' that he does not want 'to be part of this war.'īy Aureliano Tonet and Brigitte Salino Published on Apat 17h26, updated at 12h29 on April 19, 2022

Russian Filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov: 'We were here before Putin, we hope to be here after'
