Aleksei Balabanov

Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, a member of European Film Academy. He started from 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. Provided by Wikipedia