Aleksei Balabanov
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1959-02-25 · Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR
- Died
- 2013-05-18
Known for
- Brother (1997) — Director
- Brother 2 (2000) — Director
- Cargo 200 (2007) — Writer
- Dead Man's Bluff (2005) — Director
- War (2002) — Writer
- Of Freaks and Men (1998) — Director
- Morphine (2008) — Director
- Me Too (2012) — Director
- The Stoker (2010) — Writer
- It Doesn't Hurt Me (2006) — Director
- The Castle (1994) — Director
- Happy Days (1991) — Director
- River (2002) — Screenplay
- Nastya and Egor (1989) — Director
- There used to be another time (1987) — Director
- The Arrival of a Train (1996)