Born 1959 (age 54) · Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR
Appears in 26 titles

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.

Filmography

Brother
7.5
Brother
1997
Director
Brother 2
7.1
Brother 2
2000
Director
Cargo 200
6.8
Cargo 200
2007
Director
Dead Man's Bluff
6.7
Dead Man's Bluff
2005
Director
War
6.8
War
2002
Director
Of Freaks and Men
6.4
Of Freaks and Men
1998
Director
Morphine
6.7
Morphine
2008
Director
Me Too
5.6
Me Too
2012
Director
The Stoker
6.1
The Stoker
2010
Director
It Doesn't Hurt Me
5.3
It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006
Director
The Castle
5.7
The Castle
1994
Director
Happy Days
5.8
Happy Days
1991
Director
River
5.6
River
2002
Director
Nastya and Egor
5.3
Nastya and Egor
1989
Director
The Arrival of a Train
5.5
The Arrival of a Train
1996
Director
There used to be another time
5.5
Trofim
1995
Director
One Step Beyond
3.5
One Step Beyond
1988
Director
About air flying in Russia
7.0
About air flying in Russia
1989
Director