Actor Alexey Serebryakov left Russia for Canada forever. "Neither enterprise nor dignity is a national idea"

The wardrobe of the Moscow City Court is located in the basement. Queue. A girl with an oriental appearance takes her coat slowly, gets confused in the numbers... I turn around. I see Kirill Serebrennikov with a lawyer nearby, security at a distance. I nod... I don’t know if it’s allowed to approach the accused in the wardrobe? Will my greeting harm him? I decide to ask: “Can I hug you?” “It’s possible,” he says. “You are not a participant in investigative measures.”

I’m not a participant, but within the majestic marble walls of the Moscow City Court you involuntarily begin to feel guilty of something. From court and sums... “Don’t take it off! Another warning, leave the courthouse!” - the hefty guards guard gets angry, and the people crowding in front of room No. 225 hastily hide their phones.

Room No. 225 is considering appeals from ex-director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky, former director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itin and director Kirill Serebrennikov about the possibility of changing their preventive measure.

Serebrennikov's lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov argues that the main evidence of the theft of state funds is still the slander of the former accountant of the theater Nina Maslyaeva, who was illegally detained. She was kept in a pre-trial detention center until she gave the necessary but unsubstantiated evidence against her theater colleagues to the investigation. According to the lawyer, it is obvious that, in comparison with the previous meeting, the investigation did not find any new evidence of the suspects’ guilt. And the previous ones were not based on specifics - on general words.

Itin’s lawyer shares his concern with the court: “House arrest is used as a punishment and a means of putting pressure on those under investigation.” Pressure was put on Itin, but he does not testify against Serebrennikov not out of friendly relations, he simply does not know about the activities of the Seventh Studio - he has worked at the Yaroslavl Theater since 2011.

During the meeting, an amazing circumstance became clear: during the interrogation, Serebrennikov was asked questions with reference to Itin’s incriminating testimony... which Itin did not give.

“Apparently,” explains Itin’s lawyer, “the investigation hoped that the accused would begin to slander each other.” The lawyer suggests that in this case, isolating the accused for the investigation is a way to “split them into corners.”

“I asked the people arresting me,” says Kirill Serebrennikov, “why?” They explained to me that Itin had begun to testify against me. These pieces of paper with the alleged testimony of my colleague were almost more painful injuries than the arrest itself. And today is a happy day, I realized that all this is a lie... a lie based on non-existent evidence.”

Malobrodsky's lawyer Ksenia Karpinskaya asks a rhetorical question: “Should the investigator act in good faith or not?

As a result, the entire court turns into a defense against absurd accusations, repeated like mantras from session to session.

Lawyers: “We hoped that the investigation wanted to reveal the truth. But the investigation is looking exclusively for evidence of guilt.” The defense side is deprived of the opportunity to provide evidence. They are not taken into account."

Karpinskaya asks that correspondence from Alexey Malobrodsky’s personal mail, certified by a notary, be included in the case materials. Not only Malobrodsky’s letters themselves, in which he asks for an increase in salary (up to 200 thousand rubles) and permission to work part-time at the Seventh Studio and the Gogol Center, but also Serebrennikov’s answers. In the answers ignored (or not found?) by the investigation, Serebrennikov writes that he cannot pay such a salary... asks Malobrodsky to focus exclusively on working at the Gogol Center. There is not a word about money (!) in Serebrenikov’s answers.

Serebrennikov asks in the letter: “Have all specific activities been taken into account, since claims may arise?

“The court must verify the involvement of the accused in the criminal case,” the lawyers insist, “check the evidence... Malobrodsky in his letters described in detail what funds were spent on equipment, on various events...” Investigators from everything draw one conclusion: “Well, clearly, the money was stolen ..."

During a long process, there is no presumption of innocence: it is not the investigation that proves guilt, but the innocent trying to prove that they are innocent. And they are not heard.

During a break, we leave the conference room with Ksenia Sobchak, she is outraged by the work of the investigators: “They are not even concerned about collecting at least some clear evidence. Not a single specific word..."

Lawyer Kharitonov quotes Dmitry Medvedev, who explained to the whole country: legislation in the field of public procurement is imperfect in the theater sector. And the resonant investigation is obliged to figure out where possible violations are, and “where is the need to make operational decisions.” Lawyers and defendants spoke about these very operational decisions. Over three years, more than 300 performances on the Platform. Light, sound, auditorium, salaries (from 40 to 60 permanent participants), payment of taxes. Until subsidies arrived, they brought their own money and took out loans from banks. But as? “We spent three years of our lives on the Platform project,” says Serebrennikov. “Essentially, they created a stationary theater.”

According to the defense, the investigation, from the very first searches, from the mask shows, from the humiliating arrests, took an exclusively accusatory bent. When the evidence of the former chief accountant Nina Maslyaeva was added to the charges, the prosecution perked up.

For cooperation with the investigation, Maslyaeva was released from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. Although the investigation knew that she had previously received a suspended sentence for embezzlement. At the trial, they recalled how she allocated loans worth 4 million rubles from Platform funds and opened her own medical center with 2 million... Nevertheless, the investigation only believes her, who is ready to slander her former theater colleagues.

Malobrodsky has not been released from the pre-trial detention center for more than 7 months. Why? Unlike Maslyaeva, he has no criminal record and has never gone into hiding. Almost the entire theater community stood up for him.

Documentation on the Platform project, as Karpinskaya explained, was destroyed by the Ministry of Culture due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. She asks questions: “Destroyed by whom? Who was present?” Why did the Ministry of Culture not consider itself a victim for three years, but after the “investigative initiative”, they decided “that they suffered”?

About a hundred guarantees for Kirill Serebrennikov are also sent to the table. The director has been under house arrest for more than 3 months - a measure that is clearly excessive. During all this time, the investigation never obtained new evidence of his guilt.

Lawyers refer to the plenum of the Supreme Court, which determines that new circumstances of the case are necessary to extend the period of detention: there are none.

Serebrennikov explains to the judge

“I was arrested later than everyone else, there were searches, investigators were called, I always showed up, told in detail about the Platform and all the projects that they did. About how they looked for money, when the tranche from the Ministry of Culture was delayed, how they invested their funds, took out loans. I constantly informed the investigation exactly where I was. There is no point in running, it means admitting your guilt. Probably someone wants us to suffer. Okay, we're already suffering. And most importantly, not only us, but also our loved ones. My parents are over 80. My father is after surgery, my mother is in bed, she has Alzheimer’s, there is a chance that she simply won’t recognize me. I'm not saying this for pity. It’s just that this “detainment of terrible criminals” turns into torture of elderly people who definitely don’t deserve it. We are holding on, but you can’t tell them: “Hold on!”
In the hall of the Moscow City Court. Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS

The chubby red-haired investigator and the pretty but dull-faced prosecutor listen to him skeptically. They quickly rattled off the prepared text, without focusing on the details. Malobrodsky compares the speeches of the investigator and the prosecutor with shamanic spells, repeating the same thing with different intonations... He even suggested that the prosecutor's texts are written as carbon copies - they repeat each other almost word for word. “Maslyaeva entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation... Lawyers want to mislead the court... Contracts were closed with loans - they violated the law.”

The absurd turns into a multi-volume serial-trouble. The preventive measure against Malobrodsky was initially announced “for the unstaged play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” It became clear a long time ago that there was a performance. “But since the reason has disappeared, does that mean the preventive measure can be extended?” - Karpinskaya finds out.

Alexey Malobrodsky again tried to convince the court that six months in custody is practically a punishment. Without a verdict, without convincing evidence:

“A huge amount of work has been done by the investigation, the artists have been interrogated, the piano has been seized. The investigation, in fact, refutes itself. It is extremely important to me to protect my good name."

He promises to appear on subpoenas in the event of a change in the restriction. And it would be easier for investigators; they sit for hours in a pre-trial detention center, waiting for the opportunity to interrogate the accused. Why is he the only one of all the suspects being kept in custody? He was just an employee." Malobrodsky has the only explanation for his persistent cruelty: to get from him the testimony the investigation needs.”

In two days, Alexey Malobrodsky turns 60 years old. His mother, a victim of the Holocaust, is deprived of the opportunity to communicate with her son. He is sick himself, and in the pre-trial detention center he is not receiving the necessary medical care.

The judge is inscrutable throughout the hearing. He became animated only once, listing on a piece of paper the media that were allowed to film the announcement of the verdict: RBC, MK, NTV, Dozhd, Life, Russia Today... HBO (North American cable satellite television network). HBO? “Your Honor” asked with interest.

I think Jerzy Lec remarked: “A state is best judged by how it is judged.” It is interesting to ask yourself the question: why is it that the theater business is so consistently and tirelessly inflamed? Not cinematic, for example. Although it is clear that Medvedev’s words about the theater and its imperfections economic activity fully apply to cinema. However, it is precisely in the current theater that the spirit of freethinking is still completely ineradicable.

Filmmakers are increasingly willing to put on screen the dream of militarized patriotism for big money, expressing their readiness to make “Danish” films even for Unity Day, the anniversary of the Revolution, the Great Patriotic War, to write about Kolovrat, Kalashnikov, St. Vladimir or Vasilisa Kozhina. Film directors with big names They go, as if to work, to receive communion with the new shepherds Solovyov-Kiselev-Norkin. We are ready to spread rot on the overseas evil spirits, to exhort our recent registration brothers, and to glorify Russian weapons.

The theater people won't stop. They and pig heads they plant, and the Cossacks stage demonstrations, and drive them out of the premises. They are all for their own. Now about Beslan, now about sedition about religious fanaticism, now about the Malaysian Boeing, now about intimate relationships. Why are they showing us to us, we have a TV?

P.S.

The Moscow City Court did not change the preventive measure for director Kirill Serebrennikov, former director of the Seventh Studio Yuri Itin, and ex-director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky. He will remain in jail until January 19.

For several days now, the Russian public has been vigorously discussing the words famous actor Alexey Serebryakov, what he said in an interview with a popular video blogger Yuri Dudu February 20th. When they discussed the main character in Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Leviathan,” played by Serebryakov, Alexey stated in particular: “Nicholas surrendered and lost to the authorities because he is Russian. The American takes it and does it, because the psychology there is different - the psychology of success, the psychology of a career, the psychology of the fact that I have the right, I have freedoms, I am free to express my will, I know what I am doing, I am responsible for my life." .

The actor admitted that before the interview he gave a bribe to a traffic police officer: “I violated it a little. I didn’t want to waste time, but he really wanted this bribe. And I thought: “Maybe he has three children, who knows.”

Statement by 53-year-old Serebryakov, a truly popular actor (starred in the films “The Ninth Company”, “Cargo 200”, “ Inhabited island"," "Pyramid", "How Vitka Chesnok took Lekha Shtyr to the nursing home", the British TV series "McMafia") caused an incredible sensation. It looks like Soviet times, when individual cultural figures, scientists, and human rights activists were subjected to mass persecution in the press. Everyone considers it their duty to speak out.

For example, singer Katya Lel, which the Russians managed to forget about. In her opinion, arrogance and rudeness - “this is not about us.” “The Russian people are precisely compassionate, with a deep soul, which is what has always distinguished them.”“, the singer summarized.

Katya Lel

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called Serebryakov “an enemy of Russia” and compared him to Pavel Smerdyakov, a character in Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov.” The actor played this role in the series of the same name.

National artist Russia Alexander Pankratov-Cherny I also disagreed with my colleague’s words. “You know, you even go into a village and there is amazing intelligence in the people. I meet Cossacks in the Krasnodar region, and, you know, they have some kind of intelligence that comes from nature. I believe that it is inherent in nature - to be a boor or not to be,”- said Pankratov-Cherny.

Alexander Pankratov-Cherny

Director Vladimir Bortko and completely doubted the mental abilities of Alexei Serebryakov. “I shot him in two films, both were extremely patriotic. He didn't say anything like that then. I don’t know what happened to him now. The national idea of ​​Russia is to love your Motherland.",” Bortko emphasized.

Vladimir Bortko

“Serebryakov is very good artist, By the way. but that doesn't mean he clever man. If he does not want to love his Motherland, then he should not have worked here and received money. This is not very logical and mean-spirited on his part. He can remain where strength, arrogance and rudeness reign,”- Bortko said.

Head of the Mosfilm film concern, film director Karen Shakhnazarov considered Serebryakov’s opinion about Russia ugly and dishonest. According to him, such attacks will help him get “some advantages” in Canada, where Serebryakov now lives. At the same time, Shakhnazarov doubted the actor’s demand in the USA, Canada or other countries.

Karen Shakhnazarov

Director Andrei Konchalovsky also commented on Serebryakov’s statement. He noted that the actor’s words are just “one in a million opinions.” “Honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for Alyosha. I hope that he will continue to act in Russia in order to live, because hardly anyone needs him there.”, said Konchalovsky.

Andrey Konchalovsky

People's Artist of Russia, director Nikolai Dostal stated: “I love this artist! He starred in “Penal Battalion” for me. This is one of his best roles. So I don't want to comment. I heard this statement, but I don’t want to judge or anything... He is my comrade and friend.”

Nikolay Dostal

Unexpectedly expressed his opinion and was once popular actor Alexey Panin. “Look at the faces of the people, the faces they walk down the street with... A country of boors. When you walk into a store in Europe, people smile at you. In Moscow they smile too, only at Azbuka Vkusa, because it’s a richer store, but at Pyaterochka no one smiles,”- said Panin.

Alexey Panin

In his opinion, the inhabitants of Russia do not respect each other, and are ready to destroy everyone who is richer, more successful or more beautiful, demonstrating their “redneck power”. Panin expressed regret that he did not emigrate from Russia when he had money. “You have to love this country from a distance, come to ski, and then take the kids and get out of here. If my financial situation had been the same as it was ten years ago, I would have gathered my mother, daughter, everyone, and I would not have set foot in this country for a long time. I would go to hell, to hell, just to get out of this country.”, he noted. Panin added that Russia is a homophobic country, people in it are evil, and it is impossible to live in it.

Producer Fedor Popov(“How Vitka Chesnok took Lekha Shtyr to the nursing home”) supported Serebryakov: “Alexey Serebryakov has achieved success in his profession, he is a real citizen. Yes, he's harsh, but I know a lot famous people, constituting the color of the nation, which are also sharp. Why should he turn a blind eye? He, I repeat, is a citizen, he is touched by this, he has children, a family, he takes care of them first of all. This is very worthy of a man. I was struck by the fact that his children are adopted, he adopted two boys - I didn’t know about this, it’s touching. He is an actor, he has a delicate emotional constitution, he lets everything pass through him. I may not agree with something, but I understand him very much.”

Producer Fedor Popov

Comedian Efim Shifrin On his Facebook page he came out in defense of Serebryakov: “Lesha Serebryakov is the mind, honor and conscience of our sometimes brainless, dishonest and rather unscrupulous time. The truth can be angular, especially when fatigue and impatience dictate harsh and hurtful language. But he also no longer needs to draw ovals at an age when it is shameful to dissemble or lie.”

Efim Shifrin

Satirist Viktor Shenderovich caustically commented on the campaign against Serebryakov. He also remembered director Kirill Serebrennikov, who has been under house arrest for six months on a trumped-up charge of stealing budget money.

“Russia today has two mortal enemies - Serebrennikov and Serebryakov. One stole all the money allocated for culture, and only the very bottom was left, for a couple of Mikhalkovs and one Medinsky, and the other insulted us so deeply that the State Duma fainted from indignation with the entire payroll, and Russia now lies defenseless, whoever Want. The only hope is for Putin, but he is on the ballot. I don’t even know what to do",” the satirist wrote on his Facebook page.

Victor Shenderovich

The most interesting thing is that both critics and supporters of Alexei Serebryakov completely forgot about another harsh statement by the actor in the same interview. When Yuri Dud asked what the actor disliked most about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexey replied: “ Two “Bs” - lies and theft... endless.” “Our vision of the world with him is so incompatible, so unconnected that... no matter what I tell him, it will not change anything in him and will not lead to anything.”“,” Serebryakov emphasized.

Alexey Serebryakov in the film "Leviathan"

On February 22, the actor did not go back on his words. " I said everything I said. If I need to negotiate something, I will contact Mr. Dudu and negotiate with him“,” Serebryakov emphasized.

I moved my family to Canada. I want my children to grow up and be brought up in a fundamentally different, at least everyday ideology."
This coming weekend, on one of the central TV channels, viewers will see the premiere of an eight-episode film based on M. Bulgakov’s novel “ White Guard" The large-scale historical production directed by Sergei Snezhkin stars all stars national cinema. The role of Colonel Nai-Tours was performed by Alexey Serebryakov
Psychology of slaves
“AiF”: - Alexey, “The White Guard” refers us to the events of the early twentieth century - the split of society, Civil War, loss moral guidelines. IN beginning of XXI century, or rather, after the recent rallies, some started talking about the unity of the people, others - about a new split in society. What position do you support?
A.S.: - I’m afraid we are seeing a serious split, and so far only his initial stage. And this split does not occur at the level of generations or social status, but at the level of ideology, desire or unwillingness to change something. And what is much worse: within the framework of this split there is a serious pitting of people against each other. They are deliberately provoked, apparently not understanding what kind of explosion this could lead to.
I am very afraid of what might happen on March 5th. The machine is running, and no matter how fairly the elections are held, there will certainly be many who will shout about their illegitimacy. Considering the level of aggressiveness in society, this is extremely fraught. But let's be honest - if Vladimir Vladimirovich suddenly announced that he was tired and was leaving, then after some general confusion many would not allow him to do this, and many would crawl to him to ask - to ask him to stay.
"AiF": - Who would crawl?
A.S.: - To my regret, millions! Who can control such a huge country be transferred to?! He is like a tsar, the husband of Russia. This is a colossal burden. In this sense, I can only feel sorry for the people who go to the supreme power. For example, I am with my family problems I can’t always figure it out, but here is a whole state in which you give an order, and already at the third level of execution they simply forget about it, they spit on it. At the same time, the money goes away... And nothing can be done about it!
Against the backdrop of recent political events three months has almost acquired particular relevance philosophical question: “Is a democratic society in its Western form possible in principle in Russia?!”
A.S.: - Listen, only about 150 years have passed since Russia abolished serfdom. A 70 years Soviet history- what is this if not a type of slave system?! One part of the country was in prison, the other guarded them. What kind of democracy are we talking about?! We have absolutely slave psychology! And democracy is responsibility. People in best case scenario delegates someone to power. Like, we chose you - you are responsible for everything, solve our problems! Democracy is making a decision based on knowledge, a clear understanding between what and what you are choosing. But I personally don’t see today a general desire of people to educate themselves, develop, improve their skills, work and, in the end, bear responsibility - including for the country, for the government. And those who want it are a drop in the bucket. On the other hand, I would like to hope that people change.

Putin of 2001 and Putin of today are two different people. And it is quite possible that the signals that society sends to him will be heard and understood. Perhaps the advisers will turn out to be smarter. But I’m afraid that after the elections the authorities will have no choice but to start tightening the screws. Personally, I can’t imagine any other way out. I don’t understand everything with my mind, but I feel with my skin that the tension is such that one spark is enough to lead to an explosion. God forbid, some Stenka Razin appears, in the sense of a serious, charismatic leader who shouts “Smash!”, and a huge class of uneducated, unemployed young people who want to have everything but do nothing will rise up.
“I’m tired of the rudeness of the authorities”
Let's return to the "White Guard". Your hero in the film is a man of duty and honor. Do you meet such people today?
A.S.: - Of course! I have met them, but much less often than I would like. And the shortage of such people is a consequence of the system. The horror is that there is no respect for human dignity in this country. No one here has ever thought about people. We thought about the vertical of power, about internal and external enemies, about modernization, but never about people! The individuality of man and his dignity were persistently destroyed throughout the twentieth century. So it is quite difficult to demand that people show honor and duty.

“AiF”: - When we agreed on an interview with you, you mentioned that you had been living abroad for six months. I don’t understand - did you go into emigration?
A.S.: - You can say it this way... I moved my family to Canada. I want my children to grow up and be brought up in a fundamentally different, at least everyday ideology. I want them to understand that knowledge and hard work can be valued, that it is not necessary to push elbows, be rude, be aggressive and be afraid of people. The street ideology of a civilized country is benevolence and tolerance, something that is so lacking in Russia. Unfortunately, here, no matter how much I protect and isolate them, you cannot protect them from rudeness and aggression. It's in the air. Ham won.
“AiF”: Was the decision to move difficult?

A.S.: - I thought about this for a long time, but the last straw was the summer fires of 2010, when Central Russia shrouded in monstrous smog. And the point is not even the smog, but the fact that the authorities did not announce the need to evacuate at least children, since the suspensions that fill the smog are irreversibly deposited in the lungs. This is absolutely devil-may-care attitude the powers that be have filled my cup of patience.

And in general, I’m tired of what’s happening in Russia. You could say he ran away and couldn’t stand it. Life is short, and I can’t and don’t want to wait any longer for people to wise up. I don’t know how long I have left, but I want my children to learn: the world is big, and you can live differently. Everyone talks about the artificiality of Western smiles, but for me, artificial smiles are better than sincere anger.

Famous Russian actor Alexey Serebryakov said that he renounced Russian citizenship and obtained Canadian citizenship, Zaxid.net reports.
The actor plans to come to Russia only for filming, on a work visa.
The actor noted that in Russia there is “an absolutely slave psychology,” while democracy is “responsibility and decision-making based on knowledge and a clear understanding of what you choose.”
“Unfortunately, here, no matter how much I isolate my children, you cannot protect them from rudeness and aggression. It’s in the air. The boor won,” Serebryakov said.

Serebryakov is known to viewers for his roles in the film “Tests for Real Men” and in the TV series “Gangster Petersburg” and “Penal Battalion”.
At the Cannes Film Festival, the film "Leviathan" received success, in which Serebryakov played the main role.

IN last years An interesting pattern has begun to emerge: it is not new works that cause the greatest resonance in society domestic artists and directors, and their, to put it mildly, ambiguous statements on universal topics.

"Neither enterprise nor dignity is a national idea"

The hero of February 2018, of course, can be considered People's Artist of Russia Alexey Serebryakov, who in the interview Yuri Dudu expressed his opinion on the state of affairs in modern Russia and about national characteristics Russians.

“I think that if you drive 30, 50, 70 kilometers from Moscow, you will see many elements of the 90s. One way or another, until now neither knowledge, nor intelligence, nor enterprise, nor dignity are the prerogative of national idea. The national idea is strength, arrogance and rudeness.” When asked by a journalist when the artist himself encountered this in last time, Serebryakov said: “Yes, as a matter of fact, today. I gave a bribe to a traffic cop.” To the slightly stunned reporter, the actor explained: “I violated a little... I didn’t want to waste time, but he wanted this bribe so much... And I thought: “Maybe he has three children, the devil knows.”

Alexey Serebryakov's revelations could not go unnoticed. The reaction to them was appropriate.

“I have nothing but sympathy for Alyosha”

Director Vladimir Bortko in an interview with RT noted: “I filmed him in two films, both were extremely patriotic. He didn't say anything like that then. I don’t know what happened to him now. The national idea of ​​Russia is to love your homeland. And this idea allowed us to survive for centuries, being, to put it mildly, in a not very favorable environment. Serebryakov is a good artist, by the way. But a good artist does not mean a smart person.”

Colleague Bortko Andron Konchalovsky, who lived and worked in the West for many years, commented on the RBC actor’s performance: “To be honest, I have nothing but sympathy for Alyosha. I hope that he will continue to act in Russia in order to live, because there (outside Russia - Ed.) hardly anyone needs him."

Serebryakov’s long-term friend and his partner in the series “Gangster Petersburg” Dmitry Pevtsov in an interview with REN-TV, he defended his colleague: “All the hype that arises, it seems to me, is stupid. Those who do this are engaged in self-PR.”

At the same time, Pevtsov admitted that he himself had not yet seen the interview.

Journalists also turned to Serebryakov himself for comment.

“I said everything I said. If I need to negotiate something, I will turn to Mr. Dudu and negotiate with him,” the artist answered REN-TV journalists.

The boy from "Eternal Call"

The acting career of Moscow native Alexei Serebryakov began early and almost by accident. The boy studied at music school accordion class and once got into a photograph for a report about educational institution, which was published in the newspaper “Evening Moscow”. The photo caught the eye of the assistant directors Vladimir Krasnopolsky And Valeria Uskova, who was looking for exactly the type. So 13-year-old Alexei Serebryakov, who came from a family of a doctor and an aircraft engineer, ended up in one of the most successful multi-part film projects in the USSR - “ Eternal Call».

Alexey Serebryakov in the film “Eternal Call”. Photo: Still from the film

By the time of admission to acting school Serebryakov already had a rich film biography. For example, he played the main role of Suvorov soldier Vladimir Kovalev in the film “Scarlet Epaulets”. “The film tells about the fate of the students of the Suvorov Military School, who worthily took the baton from their commanders during the Great Patriotic War. Patriotic War, and about today Soviet army, character formation, nurturing the courage of young warriors,” is the description of the plot of this 1980 film.

From "Fan" to "Leviathan"

However, after graduating from GITIS in 1986, Serebryakov plunged headlong into perestroika cinema and the public recognized him in completely different images. This is a cruel guy nicknamed Pan and the films “Fun of the Young”, a karateka nicknamed “Kid” from the film “Fan”, Sergeant Arsenov from “Afghan Break”, where Serebryakov played with famous Italian Michele Placido.

There were also completely unexpected roles - for example, a role in the erotic comedy “Nude with a Hat”, or the role of a vampire slayer in the film “Ghoul”.

In 2000, Serebryakov again became one of the most popular domestic actors. This happened after he played crime boss Oleg Zvantsev, nicknamed “Lawyer,” in the TV series “Gangster Petersburg.” Next major work, which caused a wide resonance was the main role in the 2004 TV series “Penal Battalion”. We can say that at this moment Serebryakov finally gained a reputation as a person who brilliantly plays controversial characters in controversial films.

Indeed, the actor starred in almost all major projects that caused fierce controversy in society. We have already talked about “Penal Battalion”, and there were also the roles of a moonshiner in gloomy picture“Cargo 200”, the role of Lebeda in the film “Once Upon a Time There Was a Woman” and, of course, the main role in “Leviathan” Alexey Zvyagintsev.

Alexey Serebryakov in the film "Leviathan". Photo: Still from the film

“We have an absolutely slave psychology”: how Alexey Serebryakov explained his departure to Canada to “Arguments and Facts”

In 2010, Alexey Serebryakov was deservedly awarded the title “People’s Artist of Russia.”

And in 2012, the artist and his family left Russia, moving to Canada.

This is how he explained his decision: “I moved my family to Canada. I want my children to grow up and be brought up in a fundamentally different, at least everyday ideology. I want them to understand that knowledge and hard work can be valued, that it is not necessary to push elbows, be rude, be aggressive and be afraid of people. The street ideology of a civilized country is benevolence and tolerance - something that is so lacking in Russia. Unfortunately, here, no matter how much I protect and isolate them, you cannot protect them from rudeness and aggression. It's in the air. Ham has won."

At the same time, according to Serebryakov, the last straw for him was the terrible smog of 2010: “I have been thinking about this for a long time, but the last straw was the summer fires of 2010, when Central Russia was enveloped in a monstrous smog. And the point is not even the smog, but the fact that the authorities did not announce the need to evacuate at least children, since the suspensions that fill the smog are irreversibly deposited in the lungs. It was this absolutely disregardful attitude of those in power that overflowed my cup of patience.

And in general, I’m tired of what’s happening in Russia. You could say he ran away and couldn’t stand it. Life is short, and I can’t and don’t want to wait any longer for people to wise up. I don’t know how long I have left, but I want my children to learn: the world is big and you can live differently. Everyone talks about the artificiality of Western smiles, but for me, artificial smiles are better than sincere anger.”

At the same time, in the same interview, the actor discussed issues of state and society: “What kind of democracy can we talk about?! We have an absolutely slave mentality! And democracy is responsibility. At best, the people integrate someone into power. Like, we chose you - you are responsible for everything, solve our problems! Democracy is making a decision based on knowledge, a clear understanding between what and what you are choosing. But I personally don’t see today a general desire of people to educate themselves, develop, improve their skills, work and, in the end, bear responsibility - including for the country, for the government. And those who want are a drop in the ocean.”

If you look carefully, Serebryakov’s interview given to AiF six years ago is a real program document of the actor. And what was said then is not fundamentally different from what is said now.

Patriot on the screen: Alexey Serebryakov still makes money from “boorish behavior”

It would seem that everything is fair and worthy. The actor did not see eye to eye with the people, having gone to a place where life was arranged the way he liked.

There is one catch - Serebryakov left partially. He continues to work in Russia. Or rather, this is how a well-fed and prosperous life in Canada is achieved by an actor through participation in projects for people who, who knows when, will become wiser.

Here's 2015, for example. Serebryakov plays a maniac in the series “Method”, which airs on Channel One. In the same year, on the same channel, Serebryakov appears in crime drama"Farza." And in 2017, on the Rossiya channel, the artist played leading role in the series "Dr. Richter" - the official adaptation of the legendary "Dr. House".

But there is something more interesting. In 2016, Serebryakov, disappointed with Russia and its people, plays in the patriotic series “The Wall”, based on the historical adventure novel... by the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky. Played by Serebryakov historical figure- voivode Mikhail Borisovich Shein, who led the defense of Smolensk during the Time of Troubles.

And in November 2017, another historical film was released on the screens of the country, which received great government support - “The Legend of Kolovrat.” The film was personally approved Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, after viewing the picture, stated: “From what I saw, it’s impressive, touches the soul, and it seems to me that people will watch with interest. And the idea itself is a good one.”

And who do you think appeared before the Russian audience in the image of the Grand Duke of Ryazan Yuri Igorevich, who fell in battle with the invaders? Of course, disappointed in Russian people Alexey Serebryakov.

“I am aware that I am not needed there”

Why this happens, the artist himself explained in the fall of 2012 in an interview with Izvestia: “I am well aware that I am not needed there, but I don’t think so. There will be an opportunity - why not. But wait for me to play Chekhov... This could still happen here, but it’s unlikely there. An image in a movie is not created in one day. Here Johnny Depp: any of his appearances on the screen means $100 million, which the audience brought in to watch him again. For an older Russian artist to make his name such a brand is something out of the realm of the impossible... If a job appears for which I want to come to my wife and children and say: guys, you know, but in the next two months I will be working in Moscow , then they will understand. And for me this will be a chance to do something for which neither I nor they will be ashamed, of which they may even be proud.”

Once upon a time, our ancestors formulated a wisdom that goes like this: “Don’t spit in the well, you’ll need to drink the water.”

In order to get drunk somewhere other than Russia, Alexey Serebryakov has obvious difficulties. Although not everything is so bad - the artist played the boss of the Russian mafia in the “cranberry”, but quite well-made Anglo-American TV series “McMafia”. And yet, the main source of a comfortable life in Canada is money earned in Russia. Money that Russians, including those living 30, 50, 70 or more kilometers from Moscow. The money of Russian taxpayers, which is then allocated for the creation of films and transferred to the artists.

The director was placed under house arrest until October 19. Our correspondent watched the trial in the Basmanny Court [video]

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On Wednesday, August 23, the Basmanny District Court decided on the issue of choosing a preventive measure for the artistic director of the Gogol Center theater.

The most impatient of the support group began to gather at the courthouse on Kalanchevskaya Street at about nine in the morning. By 10:00 the “cameras” and writing journalists had arrived. Actors from the Gogol Center and representatives of the theater community showed up. It is not surprising that by noon - at which time the meeting was scheduled - the entrances to the Kazansky railway station, next to the Basmanny Court, were blocked. The crowd stopped traffic. The police tried to restore order by forming a chain. But in vain. The cars stopped. The people, guessing that everyone would not be allowed into the courtroom, tried to take seats in the stalls. Actor Artur Smolyaninov climbed onto the hood of someone's SUV.

This is your car? - I asked out of curiosity.

“Everything here is now ours,” Smolyaninov decided for some reason.

"Organizer criminal group"

In this bustle, the arrival of Serebrennikov, who spent the previous night in a pre-trial detention center, went unnoticed.

Let us remind you that late on Monday evening the artistic director of the Gogol Center was detained in St. Petersburg. There he takes off his New film"Lito" o early creativity of rock musician Viktor Tsoi. They hired the director almost film set. And they sent me under escort to Moscow, to the Investigative Committee. We were transported for 9 hours in a minibus.

The detention was so sudden that Kirill Semenovich was initially confused and confused. He refused to testify and was awaiting the arrival of his lawyer, who was only able to arrive in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon. Serebrennikov categorically did not admit his guilt, explaining that the essence of the charges was incomprehensible to him.

Meanwhile, investigators believe that Serebrennikov participated in the theft of 68 million rubles in government subsidies allocated to the Seventh Studio and the Platform festival in 2011-2014.

The group led by Serebrennikov committed a deliberate serious crime. Nina Maslyaeva, who is in custody (ex-accountant of the Seventh Studio - Ed.), directly pointed to Serebrennikov. “He was the organizer of a criminal group that stole budget money,” the investigator spoke at the trial. - In addition, Kirill Semenovich has a residence permit in Latvia. There is property abroad. By remaining free, he can escape responsibility. That is why the investigation is requesting house arrest for the director.

33 signatories

Following the prosecution, the defense spoke.

Kirill Semenovich’s mother has a disability, his father, Semyon Mikhailovich, born in 1933, had a heart attack and stroke,” said Serebrennikov’s lawyer, appealing to the mercy of the court. - In addition, Kirill has property - an apartment on Prechistenka, 17. Plus Natalia Solzhenitsyna’s guarantee...

The lawyer read a lengthy letter from the writer's widow, in which she wrote that detention was an exceptional measure. Natalya Dmitrievna is personally acquainted with Serebrennikov, “he is exclusively honest man" In addition to Solzhenitsa, the guarantee was signed by Alexander Kalyagin, Andrei Malakhov, Vladimir Urin, Evgeny Mironov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Konstantin Raikin, Igor Vernik, Valery Garkalin, Victoria Isakova, Chulpan Khamatova, Andrey and Avdotya Smirnova, Zelfir Tregulova, Lyudmila Rappoport, Maxim Matveev , Lev Dodin, Lisa Boyarskaya, Andrei Urgant, Ksenia Sobchak, Sergei Svetlakov, Konstantin Khabensky, Yulia Peresild... A total of 33 cultural figures.

"I can't escape the country"

All letters and guarantees were added to the case materials. Kirill Serebrennikov expressed his heartfelt gratitude.

I am not guilty. “All the accusations against me are incredibly absurd,” he said in response. - I have been working in Russia for many years. I have no reason to leave the country or influence anyone during the investigation. For every call from the investigator, I came for questioning. My team worked honestly, I am not aware of any abuses by employees. My work as an artistic director is assessed unfairly. We have created a bright, powerful project (meaning “Platform” - Ed.), which is known not only in our country, but also in the world. I was responsible for the artistic part, it was on the highest level. I won’t be able to hide or escape from the country. My passport was taken away in May. I was going to Stuttgart, where I was supposed to stage an opera. Now this is impossible. I consider house arrest to be a cruel and unjustified measure. This will not allow me to continue working. I fair man. And I have no reason to run away.

The investigation says that the charges against Serebrennikov are justified, but there is nothing substantive in the case materials,” the director’s lawyer again intervened. - The charges are based on the testimony of Nina Maslyaeva. Based on the testimony that I have read, it is impossible to establish my client’s guilt. In addition, I ask the court to take into account that we are ready to post bail in the amount that Kirill is accused of (68 million rubles - Ed.). We will quickly raise money, just throw a cry among the people who are now on the street, near the court...

"Crystal honest man"

But there was no need to shout. At about 13.00, Irina Prokhorova, publisher and older sister of businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, appeared in the Butyrsky court. In court, she said that she was ready to pay bail for the director.

Kirill Serebrennikov is an outstanding director,” Irina Dmitrievna expressed her opinion. - He brought our country to the rank of an international theatrical power. In addition, he is a crystal honest person. His life is creativity. He a true patriot Russia. I am personally ready to pay bail so that people like Serebrennikov do not go to prison.

The heightened pathos seemed to confuse even Kirill Semenovich.

I'm sorry that I caused so much trouble to such busy and wonderful people, he admitted. - I am truly a patriot of Russia. I try to make my country a powerful cultural power. I humble person and live modestly. The Platform project is a part of my life. We didn't steal anything...

Directors Andrei Smirnov and Alexey Mizgirev spoke in defense of Serebrennikov.

The song was ruined

Having heard all the pros and cons, the court, however, sided with the prosecution and decided to send Serebrennikov under house arrest until October 19. He has been under house arrest for several months now. former director"Seventh Studio" Yuri Itin.

The Gogol Center actors, who together with journalists were waiting for the court's decision, decided to support their artistic director with a song. Viktor Tsoi “We are waiting for change.” Someone from the court corridor was broadcasting to the street. And there they should have picked up in unison “Change! Our hearts demand...”. But as soon as the song began, the bailiffs “stepped on the throats” of the two most vociferous ones. Anna Shalashova and Varvara Shlykova were escorted arm in arm into a separate room. Actress Yulia Peresild rushed to their defense...

The meeting of the Basmanny Court ended on this poignant note.

OPINIONS

Actor Alexander Petrov:

Of course, one cannot help but notice what happened in the Basmanny Court building. I think that there is no need to be discouraged, everything will be fine, and justice will prevail. Quite recently I was on the set of the film “Summer” - I came there to visit my girlfriend Irina Starshenbaum. When I arrived on set, I saw a wonderful, talented, honest, real team of super professionals. Part of this team worked on Gogol.

I have known Serebrennikov’s course for a very long time - we studied at the same time. Our courses were the strongest. Serebrennikov raises only decent, honest, real, humane people with a big heart. It is very difficult to believe what is happening.

Producer Alexander Tsekalo:

I believe that in a country that is in very good relations with the whole world, where the economy is on the rise, investments are pouring in from the West, corruption has been defeated, deputies do not steal, 100 million euros are not found from the generals... What else to do? Theaters. Therefore, I think that this is a very good initiative, TV channels, singers, singers will go further. If everything is good in the country, then we need to take up culture. So they started.

Recorded by Stas TYRKIN

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Why did the Serebrennikov case divide society?

Alexander ZAPOLKSIS, political scientist:

Part of society considers itself free from society and the state. And when the state returns them to the shores, they are outraged by the clampdown on freedom (for them - anarchy). The matter is complicated by the complete separation of the “creative” from the “people”.

Matvey TZEN, lawyer:

The creative intelligentsia believes that he is not to blame “because a talented director is above mercantile interests.” But where were the supervisory authorities if the money that was supposed to be reported in 2012 was stolen, but they remembered it now?

Anton BELIKOV, icon painter:

There is someone who is messing things up. But there is a place in culture for a character whose adventures everyone follows. Serebrennikov - trickster (person, spirit or animal who does not obey general rules behavior. - Ed.). The Basmanny Court is its stage, the involvement of the viewer is the practice of the theater. Serebrennikov is not Meyerhold, and 2017 is not 1937.

Marina YAKOVLEVA, Honored Artist of Russia:

I don’t think that Kirill himself is involved in fraud. He should be involved in productions, but here there is bureaucracy. Society is accustomed to blaming indiscriminately, but here we need to figure it out, because we don’t know the subtleties. It would be bitter if he was slandered and it turns out that he is not guilty of anything. I sympathize with him as a creator.

Igor MOLOTOV, writer:

Nikolai SVANIDZE, historian, journalist:

Our society has always been divided into those who support repression and those who do not. Throwing a director behind bars is a nightmare! The fate of Meyerhold comes to mind. The year 1937 returns - this class of director was tried in that year...

Vladimir BORTKO, director:

This is a litmus test when the society of Moscow and St. Petersburg is divided into liberals and statists. The process allows you to understand who you are with.

OPINION

Pavel SADKOV

Don't make a cult out of court

The investigation has been going on for months; Serebrennikov himself had no intention of fleeing or leaving anywhere, and physically he couldn’t, he doesn’t have a foreign passport. As far as is known, he participated in all investigative activities and did not shirk any questions or interrogations. Why this carnival with special forces and foreign journalists fainting from shock?

ANOTHER OPINION

Alexander KOTS

Why did artists stand up for Serebrennikov, but ministers did not stand up for Ulyukaev?

Imagine if the entire leadership of the military department had signed up for former Defense Ministry official Evgenia Vasiliev. Or all the governors began to unanimously intercede for the ex-governor of Sakhalin, Alexander Khoroshavin, moaning about repression. Or the Cabinet of Ministers, in a single impulse, wrote a letter with a request to release the arrested Minister of Economy Alexei Ulyukaev on bail. Naturally, our progressive public would immediately brand each of the signatories as a thief, a corrupt official and an accomplice. Of course, these are hated officials