The Russian Director Kirill Serebrennikov’s surprisingly been around one and a half years of house arrest, dismissed. The 49-Year-old should not leave the city without permission, reported the Agency Interfax on Monday, citing a Moscow court. Therefore, he must ask the police for permission if he wants to leave Moscow. His passport has been confiscated. In a first reaction, Serebrennikov said that he was going to put in a nutshell his work at the Gogol Center. So far, he does not see the lifting of the Arrest as a victory. The process against him was without any basis and the allegations are before the court already. Human rights activists welcomed the decision of the court.
The justice had, regardless of international protest, only last week, the house arrest for another three months. The case against the cinema and theatre Director, is known internationally as staged in the criticism. Movie stars, theater artists and politicians of Russia had repeatedly asked to stop the persecution of a liberal artist.
The Russian judiciary accuses Serebrennikov and other accused in the embezzlement of state subsidies in the amount of 133 million rubles. It is all to his work for the theatre group, Gogol-Center. The Director rejects the. The process is before a district court in the Russian capital is pending and is at 12. April with the 40. Day of the trial continued. The Prosecutor’s office had requested that the artist also in the future, in his apartment, in order to clarify open questions. Again and again there were allegations that the investigators had nothing in the Hand against Serebrennikov.
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Russian Director Serebrennikov “Free Cyril”: Premiere in spite of house arrest
Serebrennikov freedom worked despite limited movement in his apartment. The Hamburg state Opera performed in March of its new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera “Nabucco”. Also, the Stuttgart Opera and other houses had brought to the performances, despite the absence of the Director on the stage. At the end of March, he received the prestigious Russian film award “Nika” for best Director. His last year in Germany, featured the Film “Leto” tells the story of the Soviet rock stars Viktor Tsoi. (Tsp, dpa)
