--- name: "Kirill Serebrennikov" canonical: "https://film.one/person/kirill-serebrennikov" fi1m_id: "kirill-serebrennikov" imdb_id: "nm1970598" tmdb_id: 557984 wikidata_id: "Q1974774" roles: ["Director"] born: "7 September 1969" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-05T16:52:19.078307+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Kirill Serebrennikov ## Identity Kirill Serebrennikov - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kirill-serebrennikov - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** kirill-serebrennikov - **IMDb ID:** nm1970598 - **TMDB ID:** 557984 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1974774 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Serebrennikov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974774, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1970598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/557984 Director. Born 7 September 1969 in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 7 September 1969, Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia] - **Also known as:** Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников, Kirill Semyonovich Serebrennikov - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Serebrennikov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974774, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1970598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/557984 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Limonov: The Ballad*](https://film.one/film/limonov-the-ballad.md) (58) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Kirill Serebrennikov is a Russian stage and film director. Born on 7 September 1969 in Rostov-on-Don, he graduated from Rostov State University with a degree in physics in 1992 and began directing theatre productions in 1994 without formal training in the field. He has directed extensively in Moscow theatres, including the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, and served as artistic director of the Gogol Center from 2012 to 2021. His opera and ballet productions have been staged at the Bolshoi Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, and venues in Germany and elsewhere. Serebrennikov’s feature films include *Playing the Victim* (2006), *The Student* (2016), *Leto* (2018), *Petrov’s Flu* (2021), *Tchaikovsky’s Wife* (2022) and *Limonov: The Ballad* (2024), on which he also received a screenplay credit. His work has screened at Cannes, Locarno, Rome and other festivals. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Limonov: The Ballad* (2024), Fi1m 58, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/limonov-the-ballad.md) ## Complete filmography (63) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold @ Salzburg Easter Festival, Felsenreitschule 2026* (2026), Director, Stage Director, Music Director - *Nureyev - A ballet by Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov* (2026), Director - *The Disappearance of Josef Mengele* (2025), Screenplay, Director - *Boris Godunov* (2025), Director, Set Designer, Costume Design - *Don Carlo* (2024), Director - *Limonov: The Ballad* (2024), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/limonov-the-ballad.md) - *Tchaikovsky's Wife* (2022), Screenplay, Producer, Director - *The Black Monk* (2022), Stage Director, Director - *The Marksman* (2022), Stage Director, Director - *Parsifal* (2021), Stage Director - *Out of the Box* (2021), Director, Screenplay - *Petrov's Flu* (2021), Screenplay, Director - *Man Without a Name* (2021), Director - *Das Haus der guten Geister* (2020), Actor - *Gogol Online: Fear* (2020), Stage Director - *Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia* (2019), Actor - *Trinity Sunday* (2019), Thanks - *After Leto* (2018), Author, Director - *Leto* (2018), Director, Screenplay - *Little tragedies* (2017), Director, Costume Designer - *Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time* (2017), Stage Director - *Lucky Case* (2017), Production Design - *Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral* (2016), Stage Director, Director - *I Am Katya Golubeva* (2016), Actor - *Gogol Online: Kafka* (2016), Stage Director, Director - *Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story* (2016), Stage Director, Director - *Phonograph* (2016), Screenplay, Director - *Etude* (2016), Production Design, Screenplay, Director - *Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero* (2016), Director - *The Student* (2016), Director, Screenplay - *Hardcore Henry* (2015), as Tank Driver #1 - *#WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia?* (2015), Producer - *Outside the System* (2013), Director - *Betrayal* (2012), Writer, Director - *Protest Day* (2012), Actor - *Alexander Sokurov. Temptation* (2012), Director, Writer - *Tabakov. A Reflexion* (2010), Director, Writer - *Crush* (2009), Director, Screenplay - *The Threepenny Opera* (2009), Stage Director, Director - *Yuri's Day* (2008), Director - *The Pillow Man* (2007), Stage Director, Director - *The Philistines* (2007), Stage Director, Director - *Gentlemen Golovlevs* (2006), Director - *Playing the Victim* (2006), Director - *Forest* (2006), Stage Director, Director - *Naked Pioneer* (2005), Stage Director, Director - *Some Explicit Polaroids* (2005), Stage Director, Director - *Ragin* (2004), Screenplay, Director - *Bed Stories* (2003), Director - *List of Lovers of the RF* (2003), series, Director - *Plasticine* (2003), Director - *The Murderer's Diary* (2002), series, Director, Writer, Creator - *Terrorism* (2002), Stage Director, Director - *Rostov-Father* (2001), series, as Turk · Director, Writer, Creator - *Swallow* (1999), series, Director, Creator - *Undressed* (1998), Screenplay, Director, Costume Design - *Secrets of the Thunderstorm* (1998), Director - *Notes of a Madman, or the Life of Aksentiy Poprishchin, Titular Adviser* (1996), Stage Director - *Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine* (1993), Director, Writer - *Replacing Dogs with Mixing* (1993), Screenplay, Director - *After*, Director, Producer, Screenplay - *City and Music*, series, Director, Creator - *Urninge*, Director ## Gallery - ![Kirill Serebrennikov](https://film.one/media/person/6743088/gallery-de9018b32bf1.jpg) Kirill Serebrennikov — YantsImages, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kirill_Serebrennikov_280.jpg/1280px-Kirill_Serebrennikov_280.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Кирилл Серебренников на вручении премии "Хрустальная турандот" в 2004 г. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/6743088/gallery-82b0fea0463d.jpg) Кирилл Серебренников на вручении премии "Хрустальная турандот" в 2004 г. (2011) — Crystal Turandot Theatre Awards, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Serebrennikov_Kirill.jpg/1280px-Serebrennikov_Kirill.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![В октябре 2003 года студия «Мосфильм» снимала в Переславле фильм «Рагин». Съёмка началась 9 октября. Съёмки ведёт режиссёр Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников. Перес](https://film.one/media/person/6743088/gallery-d8ebe2df47f6.jpg) В октябре 2003 года студия «Мосфильм» снимала в Переславле фильм «Рагин». Съёмка началась 9 октября. Съёмки ведёт режиссёр Кирилл Семёнович Серебренников. Перес — Фотокорреспондент Ю. Н. Частов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Pn-ragin-2003-serebrennikov-0011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won - honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University 2019: honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University (won) - Europe Theatre Prize 2017: Europe Theatre Prize (won) - 2016 Cannes Film Festival 2016: 2016 Cannes Film Festival (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/kirill-serebrennikov