Alexei Balabanov

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Alexei Balabanov at IFFR

Dead Man’s Bluff

Gangster film shows a caricature of the situation in Russia during the 1990s, when the Mafia blossomed and created its own culture (bling avant la
Kings & Aces
Morphia

Artistic masterpiece of one of the greatest contemporary Russian film makers based on the short stories of Mikhail Bulgakov, as adapted by the trag
Spectrum
Cargo 200

Extremely realistic thriller about Soviet Russia in the 1980s, when a crazy policeman introduces his own laws when he has to solve two important ca
Kings & Aces
Me Too

A killer, a musician, a friend of the musician, a prostitute and an old man embark on a journey to a so-called ‘Belfry of Happiness’. A
Spectrum
Schastlivije dny

In this serene and playful film, the Russian metropolis of St. Petersburg is shown in all its visual splendour. A man (a wonderfully understated ro
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A Stoker

The latest film of the Russian master takes us to the early1990s and the city of St.Petersburg, right before the disintegration of the Soviet imper
Spectrum
Of Freaks and Men

Story about deep human passions (in its film style a reference to photography around 1900, including captions). About two families in Saint Petersb
after the fall of the wall
Zamok

First comic film interpretation of Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ in which the makers reflect their own unreal world.
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To Move