The story unfolding during one day, tells about meanness and eternally difficult female share – The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group “Nautilus Pompilios”.

The first professional work of the director Alexey Balabanov.
Course work, he shot during his studies at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors.

Ranshe bylo drugoe vremya (1987).mkv

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The post Aleksey Balabanov – Ranshe bylo drugoe vremya AKA There used to be another time (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

U menya net druga is one of the Aleksey Balabanov’s student films. It’s about a couple of girlfriends, still in highschool, one of whom plays all modern and adventurous, and the other one cannot move on to the sexual part of relationship with her boyfriend. One day the boyfriend, as a means of producing an impression on her, takes her to an underground rock concert, where the famous Belkin band is supposed to play, but it so happens that she leaves not with the boyfriend, but with the band.

On the one hand, it’s a typical student film, where lack of life experience and surplus of teenage intemperance shine through every hole. On the other – it’s the product of the epoch, which was perestroika, the agony of soviet communism. The story is relatively interesting, and the acting is good enough, but all in all the film is nothing special, because it is short of the most important thing – the lightness of being, a quality that would come to the director at later stages. Still, it might prove curious for Balabanov fans.

U.menya.net.druga.AKA.I.Have.No.Friend.1988.Aleksey.Balabanov.1080p.WEBRip.AAC.x264.RIYE.mkv

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Language(s):Russian
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The post Aleksei Balabanov – U menya net druga AKA I Have No Friend (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this dark, slow-paced and enigmatic film, the title Schastlivye Dni (Happy Days) is definitely a bit on the ironic side. The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.

Happy.Days.1991.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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A story of jealous love and betrayal that end up decimating a small group of outcaste lepers who have been banished from participation in Yakut community life.

Reka.AKA.The.River.2002.WEB-DL.1080p-Kyle.mkv

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Synopsis
The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.

Schastlivye.dni.AKA.Happy.Days.1991.WEB-DL.1080p-Kyle.mkv

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The second short film by Alexei Balabanov, shot at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio in 1989. He tells about the formation of the legends of Sverdlovsk rock – guitarist Yegor Belkin and singer Nastya Poleva.
In essence, “Nastya and Egor” is a logical continuation of the film “Before, it was a different time.”

665MB | 32m 12s | 1510×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0CA17EEF9EA09E4/Nastya_and_Egor_(1989).mkv

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The post Aleksey Balabanov – Nastya i Egor AKA Egor and Nastya (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Russia, 1917. The young doctor Polyakov arrives to work at a hospital in a remote village. After an allergic reaction to a vaccine, he starts to take morphine but becomes progressively addicted. Soon, he finds himself trying to undertake more ambitious operations whilst under the drug’s influence.

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https://nitro.download/view/9E258D435767495/Morphine.2008.576p.WEB.DDP2.0.x264-NEOLONE.mkv

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Subtitles:English

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