Director
Aleksei Balabanov
February 25, 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Sergey Makovetskiy
5 titles together
Brother 2, Dead Man's Bluff, It Doesn't Hurt Me
Aleksandr Mosin
5 titles together
Cargo 200, Morphine, Me Too
Viktor Sukhorukov
4 titles together
Brother, Brother 2, Dead Man's Bluff
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
3 titles together
Brother, Brother 2, War
Svetlana Pismichenko
3 titles together
Brother, Morphine, The Castle
Irina Rakshina
3 titles together
Brother, Cargo 200, Morphine
Full filmography · 17
Me Too
as Director
20125.6
The Stoker
Writer and Director
20106.1
Morphine
Director
20086.8
Cargo 200
Writer and Director
20076.8
It Doesn't Hurt Me
Director and Writer
20065.3
Dead Man's Bluff
Director and Writer
20056.7
War
Writer and Director
20026.8
River
Director
2002
Brother 2
Director and Writer
20007.1
Brother
Director and Writer
19977.5
The Arrival of a Train
cast and Director
1996Trofim
as сотрудник кинопроекта «Вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга» and Director
1995