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.
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Biography from TMDB.
- September 7, 1969 (57)
- Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
- Director and writer, also producer
- 8 on MovieCove · 64 credits in all
What are Kirill Serebrennikov's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 7
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 5
A split, not a type: Grounded 1 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 4
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 4
Steady 2 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 4
A split, not a type: Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 4
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Kirill Serebrennikov's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Kirill Serebrennikov's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
64 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 10 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold @ Salzburg Easter Festival, Felsenreitschule 2026 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Nureyev - A ballet by Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
Boris Godunov (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Don Carlo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
Tchaikovsky's Wife(2022)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
The Black Monk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Marksman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Parsifal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Out of the Box (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Petrov's Flu(2021)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Man Without a Name (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Das Haus der guten Geister (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Gogol Online: Fear (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Kirill Serebrennikov: The Art And The Power In Russia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Trinity Sunday (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
After Leto (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Leto(2018)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Little tragedies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Bolshoi Ballet: A Hero of Our Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Lucky Case (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Gogol Online: Stalin's Funeral (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
I Am Katya Golubeva (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Gogol Online: Kafka (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Gogol Online: An Ordinary Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Etude (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Phonograph (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Gogol Online: Akhmatova. A Poem Without a Hero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
The Student(2016)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
Hardcore Henry(2015)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
#WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Outside the System (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Betrayal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Protest Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Tabakov. A Reflexion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Crush (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
The Threepenny Opera (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Yurev den(2008)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
The Pillow Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Philistines (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Gentlemen Golovlevs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Playing the Victim (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Forest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Naked Pioneer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Some Explicit Polaroids (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Ragin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Bed Stories (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
List of Lovers of the RF (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Plasticine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
The Murderer's Diary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
The School for Scandal (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Terrorism (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Rostov-Father (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Swallow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Secrets of the Thunderstorm (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Undressed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Notes of a Madman, or the Life of Aksentiy Poprishchin, Titular Adviser (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Shigi-Jigi, or Everything Will Be Fine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Replacing Dogs with Mixing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
After (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
City and Music (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Urninge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 64 titles, 61 of them dated from 1993 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Leto (2018)
Highest rated
Leto (2018)
Most popular right now
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Kirill Serebrennikov's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 71st percentile, the median of all 8; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 75th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the atmosphere 78/100 and the pacing 47/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Kirill Serebrennikov work with?
People who share at least 2 of Kirill Serebrennikov's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ilya Stewart shares the most, 6.
Actors
- Aleksandr GorchilinShared titles: Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Leto (2018), The Student (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Aleksandr Gorchilin
- Yuliya AugShared titles: Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Leto (2018), The Student (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Yuliya Aug
- Andrey BurkovskiyShared titles: Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Andrey Burkovskiy
- Odin Lund BironShared titles: Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Odin Lund Biron
Cinematographers and editors
- Vladislav OpelyantsShared titles: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Petrov's Flu (2021), Leto (2018), The Student (2016)See all 5 shared titles with Vladislav Opelyants
- Yuriy KarikhShared titles: Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Petrov's Flu (2021), Leto (2018), The Student (2016)See all 5 shared titles with Yuriy Karikh
Producers
- Ilya StewartShared titles: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025), Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Petrov's Flu (2021), Leto (2018), The Student (2016)See all 6 shared titles with Ilya Stewart
- Murad OsmannShared titles: Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Petrov's Flu (2021), Leto (2018), The Student (2016)See all 4 shared titles with Murad Osmann
- Olivier PèreShared titles: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025), Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Petrov's Flu (2021)See all 3 shared titles with Olivier Père
- Ilya DzhincharadzeShared titles: Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022), Petrov's Flu (2021), The Student (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Ilya Dzhincharadze