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Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (Russian: Алeксeй Oктябpинoвич Балабанoв; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) [1] was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, a member of European Film Academy. [2]
Aleksey Balabanov was born on 25 February 1959 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Ekaterinburg, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Brother (1997), Cargo 200 (2007) and Of Freaks and Men (1998).
May 22, 2013 · Aleksei Balabanov, a Russian director whose films fused grisly violence, sardonic humor and rock music to convey a darkly compelling vision of his chaotic society after Communism’s collapse, died...
Dec 28, 2021 · Aleksei Balabanov is one of Russia’s best known directors of the 1990s and his movies are known for capturing the essence of those turbulent years. By Matthew Jensen. Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov was born in the town of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) on 25 February 1959.
Nov 26, 2013 · Arguably the most radical, defiantly uncompromising Russian director to emerge since the collapse of communism in that region, Aleksei Balabanov, who died suddenly this year at age 54, captured...
May 23, 2013 · Iconic Russian film director Alexei Balabanov passed away on May 18, 2013. He is best known for his portrayal of Russia in the 1990s, particularly in his films Brother and Brother 2. Balabanov...
May 18, 2013 · 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).
A provocative Russian filmmaker, Balabanov won widespread acclaim for films that satirised post-Soviet society. His work includes The Castle (1994), Brother (1997) and its sequel Brother 2 (2000), Of Freaks and Men (1998), It Doesn’t Hurt Me (2006), Cargo 200 (2007) and – recently released in the UK – The Stoker (2010).
Nov 30, 2021 · There rarely comes a director who distills the essence of their era so perfectly as Aleksey Balabanov. In the minds of many, his name is almost synonymous with 90s Russia, with its conflicts, bandits, and businessmen, as well as its search for a new identity, new heroes, and new cinema.
Born in 1959 in Sverdlovsk, Alexey Balabanov graduated from the translation faculty of the Gorky Pedagogical University. From 1983 to 1987 he worked as an assistant director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio.
