Director
Aleksei Balabanov
Born 1959 · Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR
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.
Directed
Brother
Director · 1997
Brother 2
Director · 2000
Cargo 200
Director · 2007
Dead Man's Bluff
Director · 2005
War
Director · 2002
Morphine
Director · 2008
Of Freaks and Men
Director · 1998
The Stoker
Director · 2010
Me Too
Director · 2012
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Director · 2006
The Castle
Director · 1994
Happy Days
Director · 1991
River
Director · 2002
About air flying in Russia
Director · 1989
Nastya and Egor
Director · 1989
The Arrival of a Train
Director · 1996
Trofim
Director · 1995
There used to be another time
Director · 1987
Acting
Me Too
Director · 2012
We Others Will Not
self (archive) · 2021
Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem
self (archive) · 2022
Trofim
сотрудник кинопроекта «Вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга» · 1995
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage) · 2017
How «Brother 2» Was Filmed
self · 2000
Aleksey Balabanov. Postscript
self (archive) · 2023