Aleksei Balabanov

Known for DirectingBorn 1959-02-25Died 2013-05-18Sverdlovsk, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

We Others Will Not

Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography

Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem

Brother

Brother 2

About air flying in Russia

Cargo 200

Morphine

War

Dead Man's Bluff

Of Freaks and Men

The Stoker

Me Too

Happy Days

River

The Castle

The Arrival of a Train

Trofim

It Doesn't Hurt Me

Nastya and Egor

There used to be another time

One Step Beyond

Secrets Shared with a Stranger

Aleksey Balabanov. Postscript

Plankton Salesmen

How «Brother 2» Was Filmed