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"Such people prove that Putin's Russia is not the country of winning evil"

Catherine Vinokurova About Cyril Serebrennikov

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A few months ago, when the news agency gave the first searches about the search in Gogol Center, everything that happened seemed to the phantasmagoria. Kirill Serebrennikov is one of the most famous and successful Russian directors, equally beloved by people of various political views, the most of the social and social status, wealth and miniguration.

Yesterday, the phantasmagoria received unexpectedly expected (who, how) continued. Serebrennikov was detained in St. Petersburg. From the Witness in the case of violations of public funds on a project to popularize modern art "Platform", he became accused. And now the Basmanny Court gambling his fans - from Polina Deripaska and Svetlana Bondarchuk to young hipsters or simply theatrons, and the silvernikov is behaved in handcuffed.

"Fools" have already begun to attack Serebrennikov. Here are some lines of this attack. The first line: "This is not art, he has naked people on stage." The second line: "How can I receive government financing and make performances that do not serve the interests of the state?". Third line: "If he is a great director, then he can all be"?

I did not read the materials of the case and, unlike the guardians, I am not going to judge the investigation into those grains of information that are known to the public.

Let's talk better about the arguments of those who oppose Serebrennikov. Let's start with the idea that the director allegedly bred on stage and outside its unacceptable liberalism, while receiving government financing.

Kirill Serebrennikova Now many are called the main theater director for the "creative class", under which it is customary to mean not only people of creative professions, and all those "well-dressed people", which the cold December Day of 2011 suddenly wanted a little more than forthy life in stable Zero, and came to the frost to dimness for freedom and for the right to independently choose their power. For that romantic impulse of this very "creative class" for the sixth year, the main collective "enemy of the Russian people" is listed, and the special rage of "guardians" causes those representatives who, by the nature of their classes, is at least indirectly associated with the state. In traditional football logic, those who received at least one budget penny become not partner for the state, but attendant personnel. He must lick gives a hand and, wagging a tail, humbly serve any state order.

Such a system of relationships gradually and inevitably led to the fact that a significant part of cultural products produced in Russia became simply inconvenient. Sad squeezed films of collective Mikhalkov on the same topic are great Patriotic War, pompous statues of the Tsereteli, "patriotic" exhibitions of the Russian military-historical society about the myths about the same Great Patriotic, endless projects on the theme of spirituality and fastening, the exhibition "Romanov", "Rurikovichi" with the propaganda of the history of the confrontation of Russia and the West ... All these products are similar In the main one. They are extremely boring. It is interesting to look, in general, from one point of view - the device of the state propaganda car at the beginning of the tenths. Moreover, the most funny in all this story is that all these epic canvases are served under our Hollywood sauce, "our Pearl Harbor", well, and the next attempt will be clearly "our" Game of Thrones ", that is, a deep secondary product . And yes, it is such projects in recent years, a lion's part of the budget has been liquefied, allocated by the Russian state to support culture.

At the same time, the flourishing of perfectly different art begins, which can be called intellectual. Russian documentalists collect awards worldwide. Dmitry Chernyakov puts the operas in La Scala and in Paris. Kirill Serebrennikov, Konstantin Bogomolov and other modern directors - desired and long-awaited guests at all major European festivals. Wonderful TV series "Thaw" and "Optimists", which suddenly show the Soviet period without a fellow nostalgia. And the parable of Andrei Zvyagintseva "Leviathan", filmed without a single large-scale battle scene, nominated to Oscar. It turned out that Russian intellectual art could collect not only rewards, but also full halls, both in Russia and around the world. Without attempts to make "our Hollywood", "our scouts", "our Andy Warhol" Russia showed that it is capable of creating a truly unique mass product.

In the period when Russia became increasingly in isolation and defense from external enemies, during the years when Russians began to demonize - recall at least the tragicomic bands of American newspapers of recent times, - intellectual art remained actually the only Russian Soft Power, the only way to break the zone of alienation between Russia and the rest of the world. The face of Russia in the international arena today is not only the inconspicuous jokes of Maria Zakharova, but also intellectual art, its own existence proving that Putin "S Russia is not the country of the victorious evil. Whether our power is smarter, she would just have to learn how to competently use The same Bogomolov, Serebrennikova, Zvyagintsev in the role of Emissarians of the world, people who prove all the complexity and versatility of the current Russia, and not curse them from the viscosities of the guests.

About the second argument that, they say, silvernikov, and all the other modern directors of the theater and cinema, are "bare ass" or Chernukh, professional artistic critics will explain me better. Let's just say, firstly, such accusations sounded in all the epochs in relation to any innovative art, secondly, just read the full collection of writings and at least Alexander Pushkin. Classic art becomes over the years and centuries, and for contemporaries it is almost always - excessive innovation. If silventmen had only put the performances about the "bare ass", probably, thousands of viewers would find themselves a different way of pastime, and the audience of Serebrennikov would not exceed the average strip-club audience.

Finally, with the third argument ("if he is a great director, then he can, all can be"?) At this stage, it is generally ridiculous. While we do not see no evidence from charges, no protection arguments. You can say only one thing.

We saw that Eugene Vasilyev, a close friend of the Ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, who was accused of embezzling more than 360 million rubles, was accused of embezzling more than 360 million rubles (she spent the time from May to August and colony, after which she was taken into a bright future Black Mercedes). We have seen a search frames in the house of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Beljaninov, who kept the packs of money in shoe boxes, but immediately after the resignation turned out to be uncomplicated to the criminal case of smuggling. We saw how an amnestied daughter of the head of the Irkutsk Region Anna Chavenkovo, to death, which knocked down two women.

Against this background, Kirill Serebrennikov, in any case, looks like a figure worthy of mercy.

And last. It is clear that all the attention of the public is riveted precisely to the figure of Serebrennikov himself. But let's not forget that this case is accused not only Serebrennikov and that it is necessary to save not only his one, but also the Director General of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin, the former Director of Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky, Chief Accountant "Seventh Studios" Nina Maslyaev.

Curse Maslyaev for the fact that an elderly woman who has had no lawyer succumbed to intimidation of the investigation and gave testimony, just to get out of the SIZO (her, by the way, deceived), - this means to be like the guardians. Nina Maslyaeva deserves mercy, support and assistance no less than all other personars of this case.

Director and Ghost "Strong Hand"

"Be cursed ... So that you died everything yourself from fear of each other," so looks like a reference version of the Avdota Smirnova that has happened to Cyril Silventnikov, spouses of one of the main symbols of Russian liberal reforms of the 90s of Anatoly Chubais. And such a reaction can be considered very typical for the Russian creative class.

Not all the iconic people in this environment considered it necessary for the example of the wife of Chubais abundantly take advantage of the abnormative vocabulary. But almost all declared approximately the following: the visit of the security forces to Serebrennikov is the wreck of the foundations, something completely unacceptable, immoral, cynical and even criminal.

I am far from making any conclusions about the guilt or innocence of the Head of Gogol Center. But what conclusion lies on the surface: in the Russian creative class environment, the question of whether Kirill Serebrenniks allowed financial disorders or did not allow anyone. Everyone rushed to defend him because he was "his own" - flesh from a creative class flesh, his intellectual-artistic leader and the tribune.

This reaction is not necessarily incorrect. But it is characteristic primarily for society built on clan principles. Society for whom the importance is not the question: "Is the person responsible for him?", And the question is: "This person is ours or not?"

I repeat once again: I do not distribute moral assessments and I do not blame anyone. I only state the fact: a layer of Russian society, which considers itself the most modern and progressive, behaves in accurately according to clan principles. From this we can conclude: our creative class has impaired too much. You can, but in my opinion, no need. In the article "Party Organization and Party Literature" Vladimir Lenin wrote: "It is impossible to live in society and be free from society." That is our creative class and does - lives in society and is not free from him.

You can beat our "progressive intelligentsia" for a long time for the discrepancy between what it declares and how it actually behaves. But let's ask for a question: and how much of Russian society behaves differently? In which part of the Russian society, the clan principle is not an organizational rod and life guide? In the system of security officials? In the environment of officials? In a business environment? So it turns out: everything you can accuse our creative class is hypocrisy.

From this, again it does not necessarily follow that the defenders of Kirill Serebrennikov behave wrong. From the point of view of the rules adopted in our society, they behave as it should: appeal to the first person of the state, replicate allegedly, which, by the way, can easily be regarded as pressing pressure on law enforcement agencies. And who will say to me: is it well in modern Russian conditions or bad - use the president to give pressure on investigators who unwind a concrete criminal case?

When a cult public figure is delayed in the West, everyone declare their shock state, but at the same time add: the court will necessarily figure everything. In our society, this phrase is also present - but only in a purely ritual sense. In Russia, there is no confidence in institutions, including the court, law enforcement agencies and other and other. In Russia, there is a belief that any question can be solved by convincing the president in the loyalty of their picture of the world and that "their" needs to be shed at any cost.

From whose point of view, it is very bad. From someone's point of view, it is very good and convenient. But first of all, this data is a given, which is impossible to change, replacing the president, the premiere, the head of the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor General. Confidence in institutions arises only when society gets used to its stability political system. We have not yet formed such a habit - and even with the best scenario, it will not be formed in many years.

That is, in my opinion, the deep political meaning of the unpleasant story, in which Kirill Serebrennikov pleased. Itself not wanting, a fashionable director became the main character of a convincing and large-scale perflecting about the hidden norms of the life of modern Russian life.

Read the materials

Last week, the festival of documentary cinema of the CIS countries "Eurasia was held in Minsk. Doc. Among the honorary guests of the forum was Vitaly Tretyakov, who himself calls himself a conditionally famous serious journalist. But the viewers know well an outstanding creative scale Vitaly Tovievich, Dean Higher School Television MSU them. M.V. Lomonosov. For many years on the TV channel "Culture", he leads philosophical conversations in the program "What to do", and in the last year and a half it can often be seen on the barricades in the political current of Vladimir Solovyov, where Vitaly Tretyakov is trying to measure his forces in his humble voice Influence the course of events in Russia.

Fortunately for us, Tretyakov also passionate theater. Professor tries not to miss a significant premiere in Moscow. In two large boxes, he carefully stores the programs of all performances on which he visited. You can imagine this busy retrospective life of the last years of forty, which passed before his eyes. In this regard, it was curious to learn the opinion of Tretyakov about those high-profile film and theatrical scandals, which are shaking Moscow in recent months.

Vitaly Tovievich, in your blog in Facebook you left a recently emotional record: "Yes, show Finally" Matilda "on federal channels and close this performance of the political absurd." Are you sure that all the hysteria around the new picture of Alexei Teacher is a political performance, and not mental, as certified by Mikhail Shvydkov, who also celebrated in Minsk?

Photo of Sergey Lozyuk.

An employed paradox: In Facebooks and Twitters, everyone loves to joke, and often do not understand jokes. Naturally, this my writing is ironic. And it is connected with the concrete film "Matilda", which no one saw, but everyone is discussing - it is really abnormal. When some people, a priori who did not see the film, they say that this is "blasphemy", and others, a priori not seen, they say that this is a masterpiece, is weak the position and the other side. In order to prevent Mikhail Shvydka called a mental problem, I suggested - well, show this movie to everyone. And how to all? Not in the cinema where 5 - 6 people go out of thousands, and mostly young people, which are not at all interested in such films. It is necessary to show "Matilda" by federal channels. And then this problem will disappear. Everyone will look and say that there is nothing immoral in the film, or, on the contrary, they will criticize and criticize the picture. The state for that and exists to take in this case a radical decision, and not to be expected, sit back and say that nothing terrible happens. How does not happen when the spiral of mutual misunderstanding is unwind and there are already collisions and conflicts, which in some of their episodes really resemble madness, until the collective, and individual. In response, the authorities have now proposed the police to put in cinemas - this is that a brilliant decision, or what? Well, let's now rent every film will accompany the militia if she has nothing more to do. We have no crime? I believe that the optimal solution would be to buy the right to "Matilda" roller and show a video on television to succeed.

In your television "duel" with Joseph Raidelgaus, where it was about Cyril Serebrennikov, his arrest and associated with this public discussion, it seemed to me that all the same performances of the Gogol Center were not too complaining and did not consider Serebrennikov the rule of Dum and cruiser?

In Gogol Center did not have been, but I saw the production of Serebrennikov "Golden Cockerel" in the Bolshoi Theater, I didn't like it immediately. I am in a sense theatrical person, followed what is happening in Moscow: if you do not have time to look, I read critics that I respect. And I know what one or another critic shares the views not only artistic, but also political. With many of them familiar personally. If I do not own information on a specific topic, then I do not interfere in the discussion. And when I speaking on a specific topic, I have some idea of \u200b\u200bwhat I say.

In 2012, a group of activists also demanded to prohibit the Golden Cockerel opera in the formulation of Cyril Serebrennikov.
Photo bolshoi-theatre.su.

The premiere of Nureyev ballet in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow was postponed from July for December 2017.

- And yet taste disagreements can there be a reason for the arrest of a person?

Those directorial tricks that I saw in the works of Serebrennikov convinced me that Cyril is not an inflamed person. But he climbed into politics. Money, the report on the embezzlement of which is demanding from him now, was issued to him for specific political projects.

- That is, silventmen did not cope with the political task assigned to him?

Here we enter with you in the sphere of what I know, but I can not prove publicly. Maybe I could not manage, and maybe I coped overly. I repeat, in the politics of Serebrennikov, he himself, and not so that he was in pure art, and the Kremlin plunged him. Not. He himself climbed into it. And games with the highest power, with the receipt of money directly from the highest state institutions - whether the Ministry of Culture or the Government of Moscow is giant money and gigantic politics. Financing its performances went through state channels. If we climbed there with your feet, do not say that I was tightened, you munched himself. So play on with the inevitability of political rules.

Actual and interesting

The next October issue of the magazine "Union State" was published.

Guest Rooms - Actor Mikhail Porechenkov. It does not often give a frank interview. But at the Festival Festival Festival in Nizhny Novgorod, the public has answered "SG" for a variety of questions: about his new image With a beard for the series "Bridge", which will soon come on the screens, about his most beloved role - Count Vorontsov in the painting "Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat" Sergey Vladimirovich Ursulak. "This is one of my most accurate roles. In this picture, I worked for the second time with Polina Agureva, it was the most memorable, the most creative duet for me, "the actor said.

In addition, the journal readers are waiting for an exciting story about how Belarusian books on Valdai came. It turns out that 465 years ago, it was the novices of the Orsha Kutinsky Monastery that brought the light of a printed word to the Valdai Iversky Monastery - his famous and European-owned typography.

Outstanding "Slutezitz", that is, the printer, that time was Belarusian Spiridon Sobol, who founded the Orsha Kutainsky typography for a quarter of a century before moving her to Valdai. The first settlers from Orsha arrived at the Iversky Monastery in March 1655. Among them were such outstanding personality as future Patriarch Joasaf and Brother of the Great Belarusian Enlightenment of Simeon Polotsk - Isaac Polotsky ...

Fully these and other materials read in the journal "Union State". The electronic version is available on the site.

Incomparable ideological disputes broke out around the director of Serebrennikov and the teacher, the actor of Pashinin and even around the symbol of Kogan's untimely from life. What is the reason for such a sudden exacerbation of political discussions among representatives of culture and intelligentsia?

Culture figures as if did not go on vacation this month - all of August they led stubborn ideological battles among themselves or with politicians. The reasons were the war in the Donbas, the film "Matilda", Russophobia and even the death of the violinist Dmitry Kogan.

On Thursday night in St. Petersburg, unknown persons threw the Molotov cocktails by the studio of the director Alexei Teacher. The director then officially asked the special service and the police to provide, soon beginners show him "Matilda".

On the eve of the evening, another film director - Viktor Merezhko - confessed in an interview with Komsomolskaya, that he had to the godfather of the actor Anatoly Pashinin. That very much that she had previously announced the receipt by the Volunteer in the 8th separate battalion of "Aratta" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and now "Caiforous", fighting with the Russians. "The tiller, traitor, scum", "said Merezhko about his glory son, and predicted the death of death from a sniper bullet.

On the same evening, the controversy in the runet broke out around the death of Cancer Dmitry Kogan. Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Radio "Echo Moscow" Vladimir Varfolomeyev unveiled in his Facebook The post, in which he placed the photo of Kogan in the black frame, and then - instead of expressing the grief about leaving the life of a 38-year-old famous musician - scrupulously collected and put his participation in politics in reproach. Namely: a partbiler of United Russia and even recent election to the Moscow Horometh of this party, the status of a trusted person of Putin's presidential candidate in 2012, joining the Ministry of Culture and Concert in the Crimea in 2014.

"What said about Kogan is insulting," said Viktor Merezhko newspaper look. - But all that concerns Serebrennikov? If there is theft, then let the investigating authorities look. If not, let him let go of the guy. "

The director said that in political disputes tries to occupy a neutral position, because he considers himself a Russian intellectual. At the same time, he is convinced that such discussions are not associated with sluggish and boring political life. According to him, the cinema is not so much art as ideology. And so he considers the great Soviet cinema. And now, he is convinced, "the state is not engaged in culture - and this is the main problem." Unfortunately, without art, without spirituality, the state can hardly lame, stressed Merezhko.

"With the help of cinema you can raise people. This is what Americans do. They won the world with the help of the movie. Our state is removed, letters art on samonek. I do not say that you need a rigid political censor, but you need a certain moral censor. When I first told about it, I immediately began to displacing, "Mezhko reminded.

We will remind, in parallel in the blogosphere and in the press in August there were quarrels around the figures of two other directories. Namely: about the director Kirill Serebrennikov, suspected of fraud, and the release of the director Nikita Mikhalkov from the film Foundation - in protest against the policy that became recently in the Fund of the press secretary of the head of government, the deputy head of the government of the Government of Natalia Timakova.

Unlike the director, political scientists believe that in domestic politics, for example, in party life, competition in Russia has decreased - and it is for this reason the ideological struggle for the minds of Russians has moved to a cultural platform.

The former deputy of the State Duma, director of the Institute of Political Studies, Sergey Markov, believes that the acute discussion is related to the approach of presidential elections. He explained that the political struggle is less and less related to economic interests, and more and more with cultural identity. "It comes around the world. The political struggle in the field of culture is becoming increasingly important in political sites. And in Russia it is strengthened by the fact that the struggle on political sites has largely degraded. The opposition parties on key issues became allies of the party of power, "summed up Sergey Markov. Therefore, the struggle moves to other fields.

In Russia, there are few popular engineers and scientists, the attitude towards major businessmen is also ambiguous, "Therefore, the figures from culture are very attractive in terms of election competition." "It is clear to everyone that Vladimir Putin confidently defeats in March. But this does not mean that there will be no election campaign. A serious struggle will unfold around the problem of election legitimacy, that is, honestly he won or dishonest.

In your opinion

On Tuesday, August 22, the director Kirill Serebrennikov was detained in St. Petersburg, where he shot the film "Summer", and was taken to the Investigation Committee in Moscow. The director suspected of fraud in the amount of 68 million rubles. (The maximum period of punishment under this article is 10 years in prison). The rain collected the reaction of Colleagues Serebrennikov, cultural figures and human rights defenders at the "night" detention of the director.

The head of the Center for Strategic Development (CSR) Alexey Kudrin called the detention of the director "excessive measure":

The arrest of the director is clearly excessive measure to the court, especially after the words of the president about the excessiveness of the arrests of entrepreneurs

- Alexey Kudrin (@aleksei_kudrin) August 22, 2017

Mosmera Moscow on social issues Leonid Printednikov told Interfax that the director would be to elect a preventive measure that did not associate with the deprivation of freedom, for example, a subscription on the unseason, emphasizing that in the case, the funds of the Moscow budget, and we are talking about federal money.

The head of the Human Rights Council, Mikhail Fedotov, also expressed the hope that Serebrennikov would not arrest. "I hope our detention facility is enough wisdom not to bring things before taking director in custody. Nothing but scandal will not cause it. Moreover, as much as this is known from media reports, the essence of the charges are reduced exclusively to the cashing of budget funds, and this is not the same thing that the embezzlement, "the words" Interfax "leads.

The writer and screenwriter Mikhail Idov, who, together with Silventov, is working on the film "Summer", called the situation around the director of "Traveling a Talented Man", which is clearly not beneficial for Russia and Russian culture. "

Chairman of the Commission for civil rights The Council of Human Rights under President Nikolai Svanidze called the detention of Serebrennikov "demonstrative". "It is not clear why it is so brutally coming. He is that, rapist, serial killerIs dangerous for society? Why should it be detained? He is an absolutely law-abiding citizen who is not inclined to either towards violence. Why do you need a restriction of personal freedom of a citizen? ", - leads to his words" Interfax ".

According to Svanidze, the detention of the director with the world name "Instead of systemic struggle with corruption" produces a strange impression in the country itself, and beyond, and "will have very heavy consequences for the overall atmosphere in our country."

"From a moral point, this vision is absolutely wrongful, in my opinion. Cyril Serebrennikov Talented artist, director with world name, one of the people who make up the glory of Russia at the moment, "said Svanidze.

Directed by Pavel Lungin commented on the detention of Serebrennikov on the Echo Echo. "It seems to me that we once again see that our law enforcement agencies do not give the reverse, cannot manifest flexibility.<...> Of course, there is no need for arrest. Kirill does not leave anywhere, it works. He is here, he goes to all interrogations, writes explanations. It seems to me that this is excessive cruelty, some kind of vengeful cruelty, "Lungin said.

Human rights activist Olga Romanova called detention inevitable and tied him to an attempt by the investigative committee to prove "that they are not fools":

Human rights activist Zoya Lightova suggested that if Serebrennikov does not touch under house arrest, the number of proxies can be reduced:

General Director of the TV channel "Friday" Nikolai Cartridge:

Journalist Leonid Ragozin called the persecution of Serebrennikov an example of the "point terror of the Kremlin". The purpose of the detention, according to the journalist, is to maximize the effect and sow fear:

The Persecution of Kirill Serebrennikov Is a Classic Examplesis of Kremlin "S Pinpoint Terror. The Goal Is to Maximize Media Effect and SOW Fear

- Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin)