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Born February 25, 1959 · Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, USSR
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.

Me Too
2012

The Stoker
2010

Morphine
2008

Cargo 200
2007

It Doesn't Hurt Me
2006

Dead Man's Bluff
2005

War
2002

River
2002

Brother 2
2000

Of Freaks and Men
1998

Brother
1997

The Arrival of a Train
1996
Trofim
1995

The Castle
1994

Happy Days
1991

Nastya and Egor
1989

About air flying in Russia
1989

One Step Beyond
1988

There used to be another time
1987