Director Serebrennikow surprisingly to rehearsals in Hamburg

Created: 01/10/2022Updated: 01/10/2022 10:47 AM

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikow at the premiere of a film.

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The Russian star director Kirill Serebrennikow has surprisingly arrived at rehearsals at the Hamburg Thalia Theater.

The Thalia Theater announced on Monday.

Behind him are a strict travel ban for more than four years and numerous productions via zoom and video throughout Europe.

Since Monday he has been conducting rehearsals for his production of Chekhov's story “The Black Monk” at the Thalia Theater.

Hamburg - Serebrennikow was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence in 2020 for alleged embezzlement of funds and has not been allowed to leave Russia since then.

Now, very suddenly, he was given permission to work in Hamburg, it was said.

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