Aleksei Balabanov

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.

Directed

1. Brother (1997) — Director
2. Brother 2 (2000) — Director
3. Cargo 200 (2007) — Director
4. Dead Man's Bluff (2005) — Director
5. War (2002) — Director
6. Of Freaks and Men (1998) — Director
7. Morphine (2008) — Director
8. Me Too (2012) — Director
9. The Stoker (2010) — Director
10. It Doesn't Hurt Me (2006) — Director
11. The Castle (1994) — Director
12. Happy Days (1991) — Director
13. River (2002) — Director
14. Nastya and Egor (1989) — Director
15. The Arrival of a Train (1996) — Director
16. There used to be another time (1987) — Director
17. Trofim (1995) — Director
18. One Step Beyond (1988) — Director
19. About air flying in Russia (1989) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Me Too (2012) — Director
2. The Arrival of a Train (1996)
3. Trofim (1995) — сотрудник кинопроекта «Вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга»
4. Balabanov. Belltower. Requiem (2022) — self (archive)
5. We Others Will Not (2021) — self (archive)
6. Aleksey Balabanov. Postscript (2023) — self (archive)
7. How «Brother 2» Was Filmed (2000) — self
8. Plankton Salesmen (2017) — Self (archive footage)