Biography of director Balabanov

The latest news biography for his creative biography Alexei Balabanov managed to create the image of the hero of the post -Soviet era with his legends, desires and a contradictory fate. The director’s films forever recorded the image of the long -gone time, becoming one of the best Russian films. Childhood and youth film director Alexei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov was born on February 25 in Sverdlovsk now Yekaterinburg.

The boy’s father Oktyabrin Sergeyevich worked at the Sverdlovsk film studio. Being by education by a scientific journalist, he held the position of editor-in-chief of the Association of Scientific and popular films. Mom Inga Alexandrovna received the education of a medic, led the local Research Institute of Physiotherapy and Resortology. Interest in creativity manifested itself in Alexei as a child.

The boy loved to read, went with pleasure to the cinema and was engaged in music. For some time he played the rhythm guitar in the school music group, which he created with friends. But, according to the mother, after graduating from school, the young man firmly decided to connect life with the cinema. Parents believed that for this it was necessary to first get a more serious education, to know a foreign language.

After consulting with friends, they convinced their son to enter the Gorky Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, where he mastered the profession of a translator. Balabanov was a diligent student, during his studies he went to practice in England, which made an unforgettable impression. In the year, having received a diploma of the institute, Alexei began serving in the ranks of the Soviet Army.

Being two years as an officer of military transport aircraft, he received life experience, which later embodied in his cinematographic work. In those years, the young man had to travel a lot: as part of his military unit, he performed tasks in Asia and the African continent. A separate biography page was participation in the Afghan war. The contradictory events that the future director witnessed in his youth, as well as the stories and army legends heard in the circle of colleagues, later formed the basis of one of Balabanov’s most severe for the viewer to perceive the “load”.

Alexey returned to his hometown in the year. He already knew that he would not work in his specialty. Father arranged a son at the film studio as an assistant director of documentary cinema. Then the guy wanted to shoot a chronicle, but gradually interest arose in feature films. At that time, Sverdlovsk experienced the heyday of underground culture. In a city, which is at a sufficient distance from the capital and power circles, a school of rock music has appeared.

Alexey Balabanov was personally acquainted with the members of the Nautilus Pompilius group. The music of this team subsequently accompanied many paintings by the great director, merging into a single whole with Balabanov’s aesthetics. Films for four years Balabanov worked at the Sverdlovsk film studio. The director’s debut work was the painting “There used to be another time”, shot spontaneously in the year.

As the master later recalled, the operator asked him for help, who lacked resources for thesis in connection with a limited budget. Alexey wrote the script for the film in one night, where he invited friends from the Nautilus Pompilius group, and involved visitors to the restaurant chosen by the place of filming as a mass. But he remained dissatisfied with the quality of teaching and eventually became a student of the highest courses of scriptwriters and directors.

By the time the director was completed in the year, he already had several works in which he shot as invited stars of musicians of the Sverdlovsk rock club. Subsequently, Viktor Sukhorukov became one of the permanent participants in the acting in Balabanov’s films. The first launched joint project was called "Happy Days." Some stories of Samuel Backkete, the founder of the “absurd theater” in literature, were embodied in the picture.

The film was presented in the out -of -competition program of the Cannes festival and marked by Russian festival awards. A significant event in the life of a celebrity was the acquaintance with producer Sergei Selvanov. Together they established the film company "STV", thanks to which Balabanov shot most of the films. In the year, their first work came out - “Castle”, created on the basis of the novel by one of the director’s favorite writers - Franz Kafka.

The popular love of him was brought to him by the film "Brother". The main role was played by Sergey Bodrov, the youngest, whom the master noticed thanks to the Kaucasian captive tape. After that, he no longer wanted to shoot anyone in the role of Danila Bagrov. The tape budget was so limited that the funds were allocated mainly on film. Actors and the team worked mainly on enthusiasm, but in the end the drama became cult.

The scenario of the next work of the master, entitled “About Freaks and People” appeared in M, but was implemented only after 5 years. The tape was not intended for a wide audience and received ambiguous reviews. Despite this, it was awarded the Nick Award.If the first picture was an artifact of the era, then the second was made more like a farewell to the illusions of the X.

The screening of the painting “War” led to Balabanov’s accusations of unscrupulousness. Its action takes place in the North Caucasus during the Second Chechen War. The shooting took place far from the places where real fighting took place, but many artists recalled that they fell into dangerous conditions on the site and even risked their lives. In the year, the director survived the tragedy - Sergey Bodrov died.

Longing for a friend completely captured Balabanov, and, in order to distract the director, Sageanov began to bring scripts written by other authors. Before that, Alexei Oktyabrinovich created the plots himself. So 2 works performed in a more game and ironic manner appeared. In M, Balabanov released the black comedy “Zhmurki”, where he had already frankly ridiculed the past “dashing” e.

A year later, a melodrama with Renata Litvinova “doesn’t hurt me”, noted by critics. Then the filmmaker took off his most difficult project in filmography - “Cargo”. The main semantic load of the picture is contained in the contrasting demonstration of “ultranasia” of the inside of Soviet society, which outwardly strives to seem safe. Due to the abundance of cruel scenes, the picture was banned in many cities of Russia.

The main roles were played by the young actress Agnia Kuznetsova and the illustrious Alexei Serebryakov.

Heroes go in search of an artifact, the mystical “bell tower of happiness”, located somewhere in the Russian province. In this picture, Balabanov starred in the role of himself - a director who dies, being rejected by this bell tower. The real rickety bell tower on the island in the Vologda Oblast, chosen by the master for shooting, hit forty days after his death.

Personal life of the master’s personal life did not work out right away, Balabanov was married twice. From the first wife of Irina, he had a son Fedor. He received a legal education and began work at STV. The second heir to the celebrity, Peter, appeared in marriage with the costume designer Nadezhda Vasilyeva. The director met her while working on the film "Castle".

Death on May 18 of the year in the dunes' sanatorium the heart of the great master ceased to fight. The cause of the death of Alexei Oktyabrinovich was called acute heart failure. The director of the director took place in St. Petersburg, in the Prince-Vladimir Cathedral, May 21. The funeral was attended by people - relatives, colleagues and fans. The grave of Balabanov is located in the Smolensk cemetery.

Memory in memory of the film prisoner in the Yekaterinburg gymnasium, where he studied, opened a memorial plate. After 5 years, in the year, a memorial plaque appeared in Nizhny Novgorod, at the State Linguistic University. The image of a celebrity is immortalized in documentary and art ribbons. Yuri Bykov devoted his “fool” to him, and in the year the film “Balabanov - a brilliant Russian director” of a blogger and journalist Yuri Dudia was presented with the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation was included in the register of media - foreign agents.

In December, Lyubov Arcus showed her vision of the last years of the filmmaker’s life in the project “Balabanov. There were salary videos from the filming of the drama "I also want." Shortly before that, in October, the Balaban exhibition opened in the Sevkabel Port space, where archival notes, photos, and celebrity drafts were presented. Filmography - “There used to be another time” - “Nastya and Yegor”.