ALEKSEI POLUYAN IN DIRECTOR ALEXEI BALABANOV’S CARGO 200. COURTESY DISINFORMATION COMPANY. Though he only decided he wanted to be a filmmaker in his late twenties, Alexei Balabanov has made up for lost time by creating a body of work that has made him both Russia’s most interesting auteur and one of its most commercially successful directors. Born in Sverdlovsk in 1959, Balabanov studied translation at the Gorky Pedagogical University and then spent a few years working as an interpreter for the Russian Army in the Middle East and Africa. It was only at the age of 28 that he signed […]
by Nick Dawson on Jan 2, 2009