Winners of “Oscar” and the Nobel prize have signed a petition in defense Serebrennikov
Moscow. 28 Aug. INTERFAX.RU Petition against home arrest and prosecution of artistic Director of “Gogol-center” Kirill Serebrennikov, who is accused of organization of embezzlement of the budget allocated 68 million rubles, signed by 35 prominent cultural figures, including the winner of two awards “Oscar” actress cate Blanchett, winner of the Nobel prize for literature Elfriede Jelinek, the Director of “Toni Erdmann” Ada Marin, conductor Teodor Currentzis and winner of the “Oscar” directed by Volker schlöndorff.
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The petition in German and English are posted on the website Change.org. The authors oppose the restriction of freedom Serebrennikov and believe that the case against him a criminal case due to the desire to silence a world-famous Director. They point out that charges related to the embezzlement of money allocated for the staging of “Midsummer night’s Dream”, which supposedly never saw the light of absurd, the play was nominated for the award “Golden mask” was shown in Riga and Paris, was listed in the “Gogol-center” and captured on video.
Cultural figures of the Russian Prosecutor’s office asking to stop the prosecution of government and to abandon the contrived charges against him.
Their signatures under the petition put also the German actor Lars Eidinger (the performer of the role of the future Emperor Nicholas II in the film by Alexei Uchitel “Matilda”), German actress Nina Hoss, winner of the “Oscar” for best foreign film (“no man’s land”) by Bosnian Director Danis Tanovic. The signatories of the petition German filmmaker schlöndorff also received an Academy award for best foreign language film — “the Tin drum”.