Aleksei Balabanov

Born in 1959 in Sverdlovsk. In 1981 he graduated from the faculty of Translation Gorky Pedagogical Institute. In 1983-1987 Alexei Balabanov worked as an assistant director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and directors, where he focused on the pilot course "author's cinema". In 1991 he began a creative path of a gifted director and screenwriter of "great movies": based on works by Daniil Kharms Balabanov put on his screenplay "Happy Days" and has co-written movie script "border conflict". For now "The Castle", filmed in 1994 on the novel by Franz Kafka, the director was awarded "Nick-94". In the same year he made his debut as a producer for the film "Confessions of a stranger". Among the other young filmmakers director participated in the creation kinoalmanaha "Arrival of a Train". In 1997, the great interest the audience and critics led criminal feed Aleksei Balabanov's Brother, in which the primary role played by Sergei Bodrov Jr.