Aleksei Balabanov is a popular Russian filmmaker

Cinema of Russia

The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed under the Soviet and in the years following the fall of the Soviet system, the Russian film industry would remain internationally recognised...

. Balabanov is best known for the 1997 crime film Brat

Brother (1997 film)

Brother is a 1997 Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov, Jr. The sequel Brother 2 was released in 2000. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

(English title: Brother), and its more action-oriented sequel, Brat-2

Brother-2

Released in 2000, Brother 2 is the sequel to the groundbreaking 1997 post-Soviet crime film Brother. The story takes place about a year after the events that occurred in the first film.-Plot synopsis:...

(Brother 2), both of which starred the late Sergei Bodrov Jr. as a novice hit man. The second film, along with its soundtrack, was immensely popular in Russia. Recently, however, he has become better known for his shocking and controversial films Gruz 200 (2007) and Morphine

Morphine (film)

Morphine is a 2008 Russian film by Aleksei Balabanov.The film is based on semi-autobiographical short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov.-Plot:The film takes place in the early 20th century. A young Russian doctor called Mikhail Polyakov arrives at a small hospital in a remote village...

(2008).

Education

In 1981 he graduated from Translation Faculty of Gorky Teachers’ Training University. From 1983 to 1987 Aleksei worked as an assistant of a film director at Sverdlovsk film studio. Later Balabanov studied at the experimental course “Auteur Cinema” (Russian: Авторское кино) of the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, graduating in 1990.

Filmography

• Kochegar (Кочегар) (2010)
• Morphine
  Morphine (film)
  Morphine is a 2008 Russian film by Aleksei Balabanov.The film is based on semi-autobiographical short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov.-Plot:The film takes place in the early 20th century. A young Russian doctor called Mikhail Polyakov arrives at a small hospital in a remote village...
  
  (Морфий) (2008)
• Cargo 200
  Cargo 200
  Cargo 200 is a Russian film from 2007 by Aleksei Balabanov that depicts a negative view of the late Soviet society. The action is set during culmination of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1984...
  
  (Груз 200) (2007)
• It Doesn't Hurt Me (Мне не больно) (2006)
• Zhmurki
  Zhmurki
  Dead Man's Bluff, or Zhmurki is a 2005 Russian black comedy/crime film.Director Aleksei Balabanov, who directed Brother and Brother 2 , uses "uniformly ace" cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors, to send up both the greed-is-good mentality of the newly democratized former Soviet...
  
  (Жмурки) (2005)
• War (Война) (2002)
• The River (Река) (2002)
• Brother 2 (Брат 2) (2000)
• Of Freaks and Men
  Of Freaks and Men
  -Premise:Filmed entirely in sepia tone and set in turn of the century Russia, the story is centered on two families and their decline at the hands of one man, Johann, and his pornographic endeavours...
  
  (Про уродов и людей) (1998)
• Brother
  Brother (1997 film)
  Brother is a 1997 Russian crime film directed by Aleksei Balabanov and starring Sergei Bodrov, Jr. The sequel Brother 2 was released in 2000. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (Брат) (1997)
• Pribytiye poyezda (1995) (segment "Trofim")
• The Castle (Замок) (1994)
• Shchastlivyye dni (Счастливые дни) (1991)
• From the History of Aerostatics in Russia (О воздушном летании в России) (1990)
• Yegor and Nastya (Настя и Егор) (1989)

External links

• Biography of Aleksei Balabanov