Kantemir Balagov

Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer

July 28, 1991 (32 years old)

in theaters on my screens

Beanpole

V.O.: Dylda

Rus. 2019. Drama by Kantemir Balagov with Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Timofey Glazkov. In 1945 Leningrad, the reunion between a very tall nurse and a friend who has returned from the front brings their respective war traumas to the surface.

Runtime: 130 min.

in theaters on my screens

Closeness

V.O.: Tesnota

Rus. 2017. Drama by Kantemir Balagov with Darya Zhovner, Olga Dragunova, Veniamin Kac. In a working-class Russian town in the late 1990s, two members of a small Jewish community are kidnapped and their lives turned upside down.

Runtime: 118 min.