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Aleksey Balabanov

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer
Born February 25, 1959Died May 18, 2013 (54 years)
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

  • Brother
  • Brat 2
  • Cargo 200
  • Blind Man's Bluff
  • War
  • Of Freaks and Men
  • Morphine
  • The Stoker
  • Me Too
  • It Doesn't Hurt Me
  • The Castle
  • Happy Days
  • The River
  • Secrets Shared with a Stranger

Aleksey Balabanov Filmography

2012
Me Too · as Screenplay
2010
2007
2006
2005
2002
2002
The River · as Screenplay
2000
1998
1997
1995
Pribytie poezda · as Screenplay
1994
1991
Happy Days · as Screenplay

2012
Me Too · as Director
1995
1995
Trofim · as Сотрудник Кинопроекта «вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга»
1974
College Girl · as Cast

2025
Brat navsegda · as Self
2023
2022
Balabanov. Kolokolnya. Rekviyem · as Self (archive)
2021
We Others Will Not · as Self (archive)
2021

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