Name
Aleksei Balabanov
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1959-02-25
Deathday
2013-05-18 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR
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.
Known For
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Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will ...
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St. Petersburg, early 20th century. The handsome and secretive Johann specializes in shoot...
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Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are youn...
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Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a l...
- 1996 The Arrival of a Train
- 2012 Me Too as Director
- 2022 Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem as self (archive)
- 2023 Aleksey Balabanov. Postscript as self (archive)
- 2000 How «Brother 2» Was Filmed as self
- 1995 Trofim as сотрудник кинопроекта «Вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга»
- 2021 We Others Will Not as self (archive)
- 2017 Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
