Serebrennikov commented on the Berkovich case with words about “global deja vu”

Director Kirill Serebrennikov said that the criminal case against his student Yevgenia Berkovich provoked a feeling of “global deja vu” in him. Today, May 5, Yevgenia Berkovich was arrested on charges of justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) because of the play “Finist Yasny Sokol”, which tells about Russian women who decided to marry Islamists and go to them in Syria.

In June 2020, Kirill Serebrennikov was sentenced to three years of probation in the case of embezzlement at the Seventh Studio and a fine of 800 thousand rubles. for fraud. On March 28, 2022, Kirill Serebrennikov’s conviction was dropped.

“They are accused of this (justifying terrorism.— “b”) your performance, which fights against this very terrorism, which screams about this pain. But for any artist there will always be an informer – an “expert” or an “art critic in civilian clothes” who will wave everything they need … We have already gone through all this – “The Performance That Wasn’t There” and so on. Arrests, searches, trials,” Mr. Serebrennikov wrote in Telegram.

Also, Mr. Serebrennikov called Yevgenia Berkovich his favorite student and remembered how she spoke at the trial in his criminal case.

“Remember how cool you were at my court? Behind all the farce, unashamedly, loomed “organs” to combat dissent. I’m sure the same office is dealing with you… The scammers raised their heads, the scoundrels got the right to vote. Their time, Zhenya. And we can’t do anything about it, we’ll just have to wait,” Mr. Serebrennikov added, among other things.

The play “Finist Yasny Sokol” was released in 2020 at the “Daughters of SOSO” theater. In 2022, the production won the Golden Mask award in the Best Costume Design and Best Playwright categories. Together with Yevgenia Berkovich, playwright Svetlana Petreychuk is being tried in a criminal case on justifying terrorism.

Development and detailed results of the case against Kirill Serebrennikov – in chronicle “b”.

Grigory Leiba