Despite his release, the Russian Director Kirill Serebrennikov continues to be under pressure. A Moscow court lifted his house arrest after a year and a half. But his passport remains confiscated.
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Work under house arrest
Under Indictment
Kirill Serebrennikov was taken in August 2017 has been established and placed under house arrest. The Russian Ministry of culture accuses him, together with three employees of his production company “the Seventh Studio” between 2011 and 2014, the equivalent of almost two million Euro to the state funds embezzled. He got the grants for pieces that were never listed.
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Work under house arrest
Protest from the culture
The Director dismissed the allegations. Artists see in the charges of a show trial against a liberal artist, and the artistic freedoms to restrict. The artistic Director of the Gogol-centre, treated in his work, poverty, Religion, and totalitarianism, and is a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.
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Work under house arrest
“Nabucco” in Hamburg
Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” which is celebrated in March of this year, at the Hamburg state Opera Premiere. Serebrennikov out accompanied the staging of his Arrest, video recordings of the samples will be sent and saved his notes on USB Sticks, since it has access to the Internet had been forbidden. The direct contact to colleagues was prohibited to him.
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Work under house arrest
Thomas Ostermeier
Thomas Ostermeier, Director of schaubühne Berlin, is friends with Serebrennikov and launched a Petition for his release. “He knew that his work challenged the authorities,” said Ostermeier in the DW program “Arts and Culture”. He pointed out that the threat was not over. Serebrennikov is not allowed to leave the country, the process would continue.
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Work under house arrest
Displacement due to homosexuality
In the absence of the already under house arrest, the Director of the Ballet “Nureyev” was premiered in December 2017 at the Moscow Bolshoi theatre. The piece about the Russian ballet icon, Rudolf Nureyev also addressed his homosexuality. Already in 2013, a Film about Peter Tchaikovsky, was a failure, because Serebrennikov refused to let his homosexuality.
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Work under house arrest
Award Winning Feature Film “Leto”
Also his Film “Leto” cut Serebrennikov during the house arrest is finished. In it, he tells the true story of a musical counter-movement in Leningrad in the beginning of the 1980s. David Bowie and Iggy Pop are idols of the heroes, which may not occur openly against the System, but alone with their long hair and their music as sympathizers of the enemy, shall apply.
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Work under house arrest
World premiere of in the absence of
Its world premiere was celebrated by “Leto” in 2018 in Cannes. Although the Festival was in Vladimir Putin’s representations, was not allowed to Serebrennikov arrive. The Cast protested against it on the Red carpet. In March 2019 Leto received the prestigious Russian film award Nika for best Director.
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Work under house arrest
Under Indictment
Kirill Serebrennikov was taken in August 2017 has been established and placed under house arrest. The Russian Ministry of culture accuses him, together with three employees of his production company “the Seventh Studio” between 2011 and 2014, the equivalent of almost two million Euro to the state funds embezzled. He got the grants for pieces that were never listed.
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Work under house arrest
Protest from the culture
The Director dismissed the allegations. Artists see in the charges of a show trial against a liberal artist, and the artistic freedoms to restrict. The artistic Director of the Gogol-centre, treated in his work, poverty, Religion, and totalitarianism, and is a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.
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Work under house arrest
“Nabucco” in Hamburg
Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” which is celebrated in March of this year, at the Hamburg state Opera Premiere. Serebrennikov out accompanied the staging of his Arrest, video recordings of the samples will be sent and saved his notes on USB Sticks, since it has access to the Internet had been forbidden. The direct contact to colleagues was prohibited to him.
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Work under house arrest
Thomas Ostermeier
Thomas Ostermeier, Director of schaubühne Berlin, is friends with Serebrennikov and launched a Petition for his release. “He knew that his work challenged the authorities,” said Ostermeier in the DW program “Arts and Culture”. He pointed out that the threat was not over. Serebrennikov is not allowed to leave the country, the process would continue.
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Work under house arrest
Displacement due to homosexuality
In the absence of the already under house arrest, the Director of the Ballet “Nureyev” was premiered in December 2017 at the Moscow Bolshoi theatre. The piece about the Russian ballet icon, Rudolf Nureyev also addressed his homosexuality. Already in 2013, a Film about Peter Tchaikovsky, was a failure, because Serebrennikov refused to let his homosexuality.
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Work under house arrest
Award Winning Feature Film “Leto”
Also his Film “Leto” cut Serebrennikov during the house arrest is finished. In it, he tells the true story of a musical counter-movement in Leningrad in the beginning of the 1980s. David Bowie and Iggy Pop are idols of the heroes, which may not occur openly against the System, but alone with their long hair and their music as sympathizers of the enemy, shall apply.
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Work under house arrest
World premiere of in the absence of
Its world premiere was celebrated by “Leto” in 2018 in Cannes. Although the Festival was in Vladimir Putin’s representations, was not allowed to Serebrennikov arrive. The Cast protested against it on the Red carpet. In March 2019 Leto received the prestigious Russian film award Nika for best Director.
The 49-Year-old should not leave the city without permission, report Russian media. Prior to that, he had to ask the police for permission. Nevertheless, it was the day after Serebrennikows dismissal relief wide. The human rights representative of the German government, Bärbel Kofler, expressed the hope that the criminal process is soon completed. “For the German-Russian cultural cooperation it would be important that if Kirill Serebrennikov could soon travel back to his engagement in Germany, to perceive,” she said in Berlin.
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The Opera house in Stuttgart, welcomed the news from Moscow. “We all know what that means for the ongoing trial against him,” said artistic Director Viktor Schoner, “but I interpret it as a first good sign.” The Stuttgart state Opera brought to 2017, the fairy-tale Opera “Hansel and Gretel” to the stage – even if Serebrennikov was not able to make his production because of the house arrest is finished.
The actors were in Cannes for the release of the Director Serebrennikov.
Artist wants to freely make further
In Zurich and Hamburg, however, the Director had staged the first performances of his house arrest from a lot of acclaimed Opera. At the premieres, he could not be present, nor for the presentation of his film “Leto” in may 2018 at the Cannes film festival. The Russian judiciary accuses the artist and other defendants, to have state funding in the millions embezzled. In the worst case, ten years in prison threaten him. The Director rejects the allegations.
The artist himself announced, after the decision of the court that he wanted to work freely again. Movie stars, theater artists and politicians from many countries had shown with Serebrennikov in solidarity and Russia urged to stop the persecution of a liberal artist.
sd/rbr (dpa/kna)