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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. Later, Balabanov directed the films Cargo 200 (2007), Morphine (2008) and A Stoker (2010) which also received critical recognition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksei Balabanov has received more than 280,414 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Aleksei Balabanov is the 878th most popular film director (up from 937th in 2019), the 1,488th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,489th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 878 out of 1,581Before him are Raoul Servais, Benny Chan, Irwin Allen, Andrew Marton, Abraham Polonsky, and Michaël Dudok de Wit. After him are Mikael Håfström, Emeric Pressburger, Gary Ross, Jørgen Leth, Kad Merad, and Jonathan Nolan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 193Before him are Wolf Hoffmann, Chris Lowe, Viktoria Mullova, Hovik Abrahamyan, Gilmar Rinaldi, and Blaž Slišković. After him are Bob Lazar, Aleksandar Petrović, Janusz Kamiński, Tsukasa Hojo, Thomas Quasthoff, and Martin Brundle. Among people deceased in 2013, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 272Before him are Pyotr Todorovsky, Marcia Wallace, Ingvar Rydell, Hasse Jeppson, Norma Bengell, and Roman Vlad. After him are Cory Monteith, Alfredo Landa, Maria Tallchief, Dave Charlton, John Thomas, and Nigel Davenport.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 1,488 out of 3,262Before him are Natalia Vodianova (1982), Carl Neumann (1832), Tamara Bykova (1958), Yuriy Voynov (1931), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), and Dmitry Peskov (1967). After him are Bulan (null), Andrey Voronikhin (1759), Andrey Makarevich (1953), Alexander Markovich Polyakov (1945), Andreï Makine (1957), and Sigizmund Levanevsky (1902).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Aleksei Balabanov ranks 30Before him are Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Sergei Bodrov (1948), Esfir Shub (1894), Alexei Uchitel (1951), and Alexander Rou (1906). After him are Mark Zakharov (1933), Tatyana Lioznova (1924), Sergey Obraztsov (1901), Giorgi Shengelaia (1937), Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877), and Yuri Ozerov (1921).

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