# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksei-balabanov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:36:19.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aleksei-balabanov"
name: "Aleksei Balabanov"
slug: "aleksei-balabanov"
description: "Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov was a Russian filmmaker. A member of the European Film Academy, he began his career by creating mostly arthouse pictures and music videos but gained significant mainstream popularity in action crime drama movies Brother (1997) and Brother 2 (2000), both of which starred Sergei Bodrov, Jr. Later, Balabanov directed the films Cargo 200 (2007), Morphine (2008), and A Stoker (2010), which also received critical recognition."
tagline: "Russian film director and screenwriter (1959-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aleksei_Balabanov.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-02-25"
deathDate: "2013-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.61145333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049326/"
    handle:    "nm0049326"
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    title: "Балабанов, Алексей Октябринович"
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    title: "Aleksei Balabanov"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump