Serebrennikov’s film about Limonov entered the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival

The film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov “Limonov, the Ballad of Eddie” about the writer Eduard Limonov was included in the main program of the Cannes Film Festival. In total, there are 19 films on the list of nominees for the Palme d’Or, indicated on website festival

The main role in the film by Kirill Serebrennikov was played by British actor Ben Whishaw. The poet Elena Shchapova, the second wife of Eduard Limonov, was played in the film by Russian actress Victoria Miroshnichenko, who gained fame after starring in Kantemir Balagov’s film “Dylda”.

The main competition of the festival also included “Megapolis” by Francis Ford Coppola, “Parthenope” by Paolo Sorrentino, “Shrouds” by David Cronenberg, “Kindness” by Yorgos Lanthimos. The list of nominees also included Sean Baker’s film Anora, in which Russian actors Yuri Borisov and Mark Eidelstein played. The Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 14 to 25.

Kirill Serebrennikov is the former head of the Gogol Center in Moscow (now the Moscow Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol). In June 2020, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced the director to three years of suspended imprisonment in the case of theft at the Seventh Studio. Mr. Serebrennikov paid 800 thousand rubles. fine and reimbursed 128 million rubles. in a civil suit; in March 2022, the suspended sentence was overturned. Four of his films were included in the Cannes Film Festival program: “The Apprentice” (2016), “Summer” (2018), “Petrovs with the Flu” (2021) and “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” (2022).

Petr Buzlaev