Boris Khlebnikov, Pavel Chukhrai, Alexei Popogrebsky, Julia Peresild - the court in the case of the Seventh Studio

"We are inside a rotten apple"

Boris Khlebnikov , director

- Kirill Serebrennikov is not a thief. The Platform project was one of the most interesting, successful in the time when it came out. And this is not discussed. This is a fact.

Another is discussed.

Seven years ago, I and Cyril were invited to the round table on the air of the rain. The discussion was called: "Is censorship needed in Russia?"

We were a little late with him. The air was supposed to go an hour. We entered and almost asked in chorus: "Why an hour?" You can spend a minute to the answer “No” and disperse. And then everyone agreed with us. That time is already impossible to imagine. Now we can talk about censorship for a long time and seriously. See how the time has changed and how crawled we have changed. Then we simply said: "No."

And now Cyril is in court, he faces a long time. And this process is demonstrative to all of us.

The critic Stas Tyrkin made a post on Facebook that if Cyril is imprisoned, it is necessary to stop filming films, do not put performances, not publish books. I don't believe it. Of course, they will continue to put, shoot, publish. Everything will seem to be still whether he will sit or not.

But another will change. Not realizing it ourselves that we live in a sticky time inside a rotten apple, we ourselves with a fate, become sticky. Just as in Stalin's times, people did not realize what horror they live, continuing to write, shoot, play while others were sitting and dying. And it happened very close.

It seems to me that the first steps to lawlessness and lawlessness have already been taken. And the worst thing is misunderstanding, conscious or unconscious, what is happening. Admission to the fact that what is happening is the norm.

"An attempt to break the artist through the knee is an act of intimidation for everyone"

Alexey Popogrebsky, director

- An attempt to deprive of freedom, perhaps, is the most effective and talented director of the modern Russian theater and cinema in a clearly fabricated case - this is an absolutely cynical and purposeful blow to the fact that there is the most lively, interesting, dynamic in modern Russian culture.

In addition to the fact that this is an obvious attempt to break the fate of the gifted artist and his colleagues through the knee, the whole process cannot but be perceived as an act of intimidation for all those who are now trying to do something outstanding, free in the country.

The excerpt and power of the spirit Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexei Malobrodsky, Sofia Apfelbaum, Yuri Itina during these three years of the process causes great respect. And I really hope that they will not have to be subjected to another terrible test.

“Why spin this flywheel? Against whom? "

Julia Peresild, actress

- I think that the process itself and this future sentence have already gone beyond the courts.

The fact that the state in which we live is working in which our children grow - does not hear us is terrible. It is scary and incomprehensible why we are not answered by our letters, to our questions.

Scary and incomprehensible.

These super -profitable and unjustified requirements should punish the innocent? Scare us? To warn? And now the 26th we are waiting in an absolute misunderstanding of what can happen. But not only the 26th-day "h". And what to do next?

I see what is happening on social networks, what a passion is the intensity of. We, the actors, are offended, they say, what do we understand ... Where are we climbing? "Actors must engage in acting, not politics."

And I do not think that we are now engaged in politics. We urge to return the human attitude to a person.

And now, under the threat of reprisals, people who did so much for art in our country, for contemporary art.

Thanks to the Platform, we have developed a wonderful reputation in the theater world of Europe. The platform opened so many names, such interesting performances came to us, events occurred, which we remember.

And now, for all this enormous work, a world -famous director and his associates must be punished. For me, this puzzle does not add up in any way. Moreover, their innocence is proved by respected, competent independent experts.

Why spin this flywheel? Against whom?

The unknown is terrible. How to further put experimental performances, do something new? Or do we need to return to the archaic past with kokoshniks, observe subordination, guess any desire of the authorities and put bad performances?

"Grold violations make you think about the custom nature of the matter"

Pavel Chustrai, director

- The trial of Kirill Serebrennikov and his colleagues looks like another indicative process. We survived. Grold violations during a long -term investigation, rather dubious examinations with dubious experts appointed by the court, the inadequate sentences required by prosecutors - all this causes a rack and forces to think about the custom nature of the case, an attempt to intelligent intelligentsia.

What else are they saying about the "theater"

Evgeny Mironov: "I practically got rid of illusions, but I cannot but believe that the court will make a right, fair decision."

Valery Fokin: "A most dangerous precedent can be created, which, of course, will seriously affect the development of our culture."

Vladimir Mirzoev: "My colleagues slandered in your eyes."

Marina Tokareva: "The end of the era is indicated."

Leonid Nikitinsky: “The 7th studio, like the whole thing, is“ not about accounting ”.”