Aleksey Balabanov

Five passengers – the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei’s old father, the Musician, and a young woman – race along an empty ...

A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he ...

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to ...

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom’s car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated ...

Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are young, full of strength and energy, they have the talent, ...

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only ...

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then ...

The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one ...

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a ...

St. Petersburg, early 20th century. The handsome and secretive Johann specializes in shooting erotic pictures depicting the floggings of ...

Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in ...

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

One of the three films that comprise Arrival of a Train, a collection of shorts made to celebrate the centenary of cinema. Set at the turn of the ...

Closely based on Franz Kafka’s book “Das Schloß”, the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a ...

An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.

The main characters of the film are members of the group “Nastya” Nastya Poleva and Yegor Belkin. The half-hour half-documentary tape ...

The provincial Russian town of Nerekhta is celebrating its 775th anniversary. The basis of the holiday is the legend about the local craftsman ...

Short feature film, filmed in 1988. One of the first works of the film director Alexei Balabanov, at that time an assistant at the Sverdlovsk ...

The story unfolding during one day, tells about the male vileness and ever-hard female share … The action takes place against the ...