Aleksei Balabanov had made more than a dozen films in the past two decades. He died recently in May 2013 and had won "best director" for Me too(2012). His Gangsters are cool, play their music for us (may not gel with the images), have great sense of reality and humor. They walk the walk and talk the talk. Most of his movies have images/music of American artists and food. His movies are about broken journeys, people hunting people, bloody killings without any melodrama...
Florian had done a Phd thesis on his films to study Russian culture. His book - Path of Blood: The Post-Soviet Gangster, His Mistress and Their Others in Aleksei Balabanov's Genre Films should be a great read. His brief interview is available
His Popular Brother series (Part 1 and 2) is about a "robin-hood' like gangster who is fearless and super cool with his own "samurai" like code. You will be waiting for new tracks as the movie progresses and the character searches for a particular CD (Nautilus Pompilius - Wings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mTTMmt-hs)
The Shocking 'Cargo 200'..
The very funny and memorable characters (by famous actors) in Dead Man's Bluff...
Trailers are badly made ( & without sub-titles) compared to the movies. Youtube does have some of his movies in full length.
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