Aleksei Balabanov
Born in Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR — Feb 25 1959• Died May 18 2013
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Biography
Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, a member of European Film Academy. He started from creating mostly arthouse pictures and music videos but gained significant mainstream popularity in action crime drama movies Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000). He has been referred to as the "Russian Quentin Tarantino" in the press for his critically acclaimed yet controversial films.
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Aleksei Balabanov's Credits
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War
Writing
Brother
Directing
Brother 2
Directing
Dead Man's Bluff
Directing
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
Morphine
Directing
Cargo 200
Writing
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Directing
Of Freaks and Men
Directing
The Castle
Directing
The Arrival of a Train
Me Too
Director
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Production
The Stoker
Writing
Happy Days
Directing
We Others Will Not
self (archive)
River
Writing
Trofim
сотрудник кинопроекта «Вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга»
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
self
About air flying in Russia
Directing
Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem
self (archive)
Aleksey Balabanov. Postscript
self (archive)
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography
Production
One Step Beyond
Writing
There used to be another time
Directing
Nastya and Egor
Directing