At the Cannes Film Festival this year, Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s masterpiece Loveless is getting a rapturous welcome from critics. Meanwhile in Russia, a former Cannes winner, film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, is being hauled off for interrogation at the Investigative Committee, after security personnel raided both his apartment and the Moscow theater he runs, the Gogol-Center.
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Journalists gather outside theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov's Gogol Centre theatre in Moscow on May 23.
