Director Kirill Serebrennikov Leaves Russia for France Following End of Travel Ban
variety.comElsa Keslassy International CorrespondentRussian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov — the director of Cannes competition titles “Leto” and “Petrov’s Flu” — has left the country following the end of a three-year travel ban, and has arrived in Paris.A picture of the iconoclastic Russian helmer popped up on social media on Wednesday.
In the pic, Serebrennikov wears a T-shirt that reads “I turn the TV off,” which alludes to the propaganda flooding Russian TV since the invasion of Ukraine on Feb.
24.Serebrennikov was sentenced in June 2020 to a three-year suspended prison sentence and was also issued a fine over trumped-up charges of embezzlement.
Reports indicate that a Moscow court has now canceled the sentence, although Variety has yet to confirm this. Kirill Serebrennikov (LETO, PETROV'S FLU…) has managed to exit Russia and has arrived in France.
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