FILM DIRECTOR

Aleksei Balabanov

1959 - 2013

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Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (Russian: Алeксeй Oктябpинoвич Балабанoв; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) 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), both of which starred Sergei Bodrov, Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksei Balabanov has received more than 309,158 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Aleksei Balabanov is the 793rd most popular film director (up from 875th in 2019), the 1,421st most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,484th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 793 out of 2,041Before him are Revaz Chkheidze, Michael Verhoeven, Sally Potter, Baltasar Kormákur, Martin Brest, and Michel Audiard. After him are Uwe Boll, Ivan Pyryev, Bruno Bozzetto, Arturo Ripstein, George Sidney, and Atom Egoyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 179Before him are Viveca Sten, Blixa Bargeld, Lawrence Stroll, Ettore Messina, Chris Lowe, and Marcos Alonso. After him are Bradley Whitford, Caroline Goodall, Zakir Hasanov, Yoshitomo Nara, Blaž Slišković, and Aryeh Deri. Among people deceased in 2013, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 248Before him are José Faria, Ladislav Pavlovič, Walter De Maria, Ted Post, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, and Hasse Jeppson. After him are Ceija Stojka, Rentarō Mikuni, Jonathan Winters, Julien Ries, Peter Banks, and Olga Gyarmati.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 1,421 out of 3,761Before him are Marie Vassilieff (1884), Antonina Makarova (1920), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), Viacheslav Fetisov (1958), and Vladimir Potanin (1961). After him are Ivan Pyryev (1901), Nikolay Novikov (1744), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), and Karen Shakhnazarov (1952).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 29Before him are Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938), Sergei Bodrov (1948), Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Tatyana Lioznova (1924), Alexei Uchitel (1951), and Mark Zakharov (1933). After him are Ivan Pyryev (1901), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Vladimir Gardin (1877), Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877), Alexander Rou (1906), and Yevgeni Bauer (1865).

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