Irina Balabanova Biography

Alexei Balabanov: "Find your own and calm down" Documentary film director Alexei Balabanov is a figure for Russian and world cinema how important, such an ambiguous director Alexei Balabanov is a figure for Russian and world cinema, how important, so much is so mixed. He discovered the audience and director Sergei Bodrov Jr., who embodied the image of Danila Bagrov, a character of controversial, but so strong and bright that he has been a real national hero for more than 20 years.

I shot films by which we recall the era x. He returned the viewer to the empty halls, created a new Russian cinema language, equally talentedly made both “light” mass and “complex” festival cinema and was one of the most accurate and honest creators in the history of Russian cinema. The director Balabanov was struck by the organicity and charm of Bodrov in the Caucasian captive and immediately suggested making a movie together with all his immediacy.

The first work has turned into the main friendship of your whole life. The painting “Brother” appeared, which brought both popularity, numerous awards and ... accusations of anti -Semitism, xenophobia and other sins from the tolerant public. It seemed to many that Balabanov was a provocateur and Fronder, but he was a simple Ural guy who was used to saying what he was thinking and feeling.

Musicians Vladimir Shahrin and Yegor Belkin, mother Inga Alexandrovna and school friend Evgeny Gorenburg will plunge us in the childhood and youth of Balabanov, held in a rock club and at a Sverdlovsk film studio. For the first time on television, his first wife Irina Balabanova shall share his memories of the director. The viewer will see unique photos from the family archive and rare shots of the first short shots taken by Balabanov at that time - it turns out, this is where this is a fantastic musical instinct of the director, thanks to which the famous soundtracks will come to the “brothers”!

In this, they absolutely coincided with Sergey Pepodrov, who became the “last hero” for the director. At our disposal was a unique interview that Balabanov gave shortly before his death, it convinces us of one thing: before us the same person, albeit tired and sad, but not broken, and honesty for him-in cinema, in life-still the main thing. Thanks to the Nadezhda Vasilyeva, the widow of Balabanov, who first agreed to a frank conversation on the television broadcast, it is still too painful - we will recognize Alexei as he was for loved ones: loving people and not loving money, a faithful friend, excellent father of the sons of Fedor and Peter and an unusual husband.

Balabanov fell off at night to roam Peter or more often - to ride a bicycle, gave reasons for jealousy and forced to worry about himself, but was always infinitely loved by Nadia. These were excellent times: Balabanov at the peak of form, next to him, the best friend Seryozha Bodrov, who simultaneously discovers television for himself and leads the legendary program “View”.

Both are full of creative plans. There was a director with his family in the car. During this period, Bodrov began the filming of his directorial debut “Sisters”, and then took part in the “Last Hero” revolutionary for Russia. Since the life of Balabanov and Bodrov’s life, they have closely intertwined and have not dispersed - “Bodrov has“ fell in love ”into the directorial profession, looking at a friend.

Even the death of Sergei Bodrov was inseparable from Balabanov - it was Alexei Oktyabrinovich who showed Bodrov Mountain of the Caucasus and sent with him almost his entire film crew, along with which he died under an avalanche in the Karmadon Gorge during the filming of his second film “Svyaznoy”. The death of Bodrov divided the life and work of Balabanov into “before” and “after”.

The confessor of Alexei Balabanov Father Raphael, his friends and relatives will talk about how he experienced these difficult years, remaining true to himself and continuing to shoot. The last painting “I also want” is a parable about the bell tower of happiness, taking people into a better world in which the director dies in the frame became prophetic ... The film takes part in the film: Nadezhda Vasilieva, the widow of Alexei Balabanova INGA Balabanova, the mother of Alexei Balabanova Fedor Balabanov, son Sergey Selvanov, friend A.

Balabanova Sergey Balabanov Bodrov-st.

Balabanova, Kinoveda, director Sergey Astakhov, a movie operator.