Alexei Balabanov

Alexei Balabanov op IFFR

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  Dead Man’s Bluff

  • Kings & Aces

  Alexei Balabanov | 107' | Russia | None

  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…
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  Morphia

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  Alexei Balabanov | 102' | Russia | International premiere

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

  • Kings & Aces

  Alexei Balabanov | 89' | Russia | None

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

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  Alexei Balabanov | 83' | Russia | None

  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’.…

• Schastlivije dny

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  Alexei Balabanov | 82' | Russia | -

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

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  Alexei Balabanov | 80' | Russia | International premiere

  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 imperium

• Of Freaks and Men

  • after the fall of the wall

  Alexei Balabanov | 93' | Russia | -

  Story about deep human passions (in its film style a reference to photography around 1900, including captions). About two families in Saint Petersburg

• Zamok

  • films from oz

  Alexei Balabanov | 120' | Russia | -

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

• Brat

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  Alexei Balabanov | 99' | Russia | -

• To Move