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Viktor Balabanov

Born in Sverdlovsk, Russia, in 1959, Aleksey Balabanov graduated at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and also attended film direction courses in Moscow. After hardening in the documentary field, Balabanov moved to Saint Petersburg and started a fiction film career which soon made him very popular in Russia, starting with the success of Brother (1997) and its sequel, Brother-2 (2000), which meant his approach to criminal thrillers. Nevertheless, just between both films, Balabanov had filmed a delicate, confusing film which to some extent would mark his future films: we mean Of Freaks and Men (1998), an oneiric, sepia tone sample of the Russian bourgeoisie facing the 20th century. Audacity and that sway between the real and the allegoric constitute the hallmark of his best films, like Cargo 200 (2007) or Morphine (2008), and are also the base for Me too, presented in the Orizzonti section at the last Venice Festival.
(Source: Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla)

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