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Aleksei Balabanov

Director
25 February 1959 to 17 May 2013

A provocative Russian filmmaker, Balabanov won widespread acclaim for films that satirised post-Soviet society. His work includes The Castle (1994), Brother (1997) and its sequel Brother 2 (2000), Of Freaks and Men (1998), It Doesn’t Hurt Me (2006), Cargo 200 (2007) and – recently released in the UK – The Stoker (2010).

- Read Aleksei Balabanov's Guardian obituary here