Gleb Aleynikov

Directing

Gleb Aleynikov

Born 1966-03-12 · Grozny, USSR

Gleb Aleynikov and his brother Igor entered the history of cinema as the creator of "parallel cinema", underground films shot on narrow film, such as "Tractors" (1987), "I'm Cold, so what?" (1987), "Cruel Illness of Men" (1987), "Post-Political Cinema" (1988). The Aleynikov brothers began working in the official cinema system in the late 1980s. Having shot the short film "Someone Was Here" (1989) and the feature film "Tractor Drivers 2" (1992) on the basis of the Mosfilm film studio, they at the same time continued to work in parallel independent cinema ("Ameriga", 1990-97).

Acting credits

The Offshore Reserves poster
6.5

The head of the American humanitarian organization has a serious problem. She is "narcotic" dependent on American dollars. The psychoanalyst advises her to leave the States. Hannah arrives in Moscow. And he heads the humanitarian fund. Her foundation imports chicken legs to Russia. When checking another large batch of chicken legs, Hannah discovers that the chicken legs are infected with a dangerous virus. Her Russian counterpart offers her $ 1,000,000 in cash so she can give permission to import chicken legs to Russia. Hannah physiologically cannot refuse such an amount. But she cannot live on, becoming a bribe taker. And then a mental transformation takes place with her...

The Offshore Reserves

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ameriga

2000

The White Maiden poster
NR

A drinking play with cannons and fireworks.

The White Maiden

1991

Aquarium Fish of This World poster
4.0

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

Aquarium Fish of This World

1990

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

Interview poster
NR

An artist is searching for a subject in the open air. Suddenly, a man emerges from a chimney. They become acquainted. The artist invites his new acquaintance to his studio and shows him his work. Suddenly, in a parallel reality, they find themselves members of a radical cell in Germany, where the future of that country is being foretold. The vision disappears. And the artist paints a portrait of his new acquaintance. It is 1982. A portrait of Leonid Ilyich is visible in Red Square. War is raging in the Falkland Islands.

Interview

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Post-Political Cinema

1988

You I Love poster
4.3

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a love triangle.

You I Love

2004

The Goddess: How I Fell in Love poster
4.6

Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love.

The Goddess: How I Fell in Love

2004

The Girl and Buda poster
NR

Experimental short.

The Girl and Buda

1984

Zenboxing poster
NR

How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING.

Zenboxing

1998

And So On... poster
NR

Experimental short.

And So On...

1985

Ivan the Fool poster
4.5

A science fiction take on the classic folk character Ivan the fool/idiot.

Ivan the Fool

2002

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ameriga

2000

Somebody Was Here... poster
8.0

A man looks for his friend, but finds himself instead...

Somebody Was Here...

1990

Aquarium Fish of This World poster
4.0

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

Aquarium Fish of This World

1990

Aquarium Fish of This World poster
4.0

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

Aquarium Fish of This World

1990

No artwork available
NR

This film was shot in 1988. The main action takes place in a rock group's studio during the visit of a few acolytes from Theatre Theatre. It is all served up in connection with Fassbinder «s notion of Antitheatre. The theme of the “mad prince” in actors» improvisations intertwines with the fate of the director and of directing in general. The adventures of the spirit form the true tale of this film. We use only the single interior, the studio room where nothing happens aside from the pulsations of spirit. It comes to life here, and it rests, as if gaining new strength. The Mad Prince Fassbinder is, indeed, spirit. Only a free camera is capable of capturing this freedom.

The Mad Prince: Fassbinder

1988

Waiting for de Bil poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Waiting for de Bil

1989

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story poster
NR

Based on paintings by the artist Oleg Golosiy.

Nikolay Berezkin's Love Story

1994

No artwork available
4.7

Under a score of abbreviated drones and freeform woodwinds, the Aleinikov brothers cut together a series of images, found and made, that look unfailingly bleak, industrial or both bleak and industrial: disused factories, clunky utilitarian machinery, strings of unsettlingly young violinists, old-timey group portraits with everyone's eyes scratched out. Interspersed are less overtly sinister but somehow eerier snatches of action, like a circling brood of crude stop-motion mice or a bunch of little wooden people chopping wood and sawing logs, all differently affected by the vagaries time and the physical world foist onto film stock.

Cruel Illness of Men

1989

The Mad Prince: Esther poster
10.0

Boris Yukhananov, along with his friends Tauz, Salah, Nadia and Olya, come to shoot an episode for the video novel "The Crazy Prince" to Nikita, who in turn is in a film expedition near Pskov. Along the way, the tragic history of the Chechen people is interfaced with the biblical book of Esther, a video with a movie, love with death, the sun with night, and happiness with tears.

The Mad Prince: Esther

1987

The Mad Prince: Playing XO poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Mad Prince: Playing XO

1987

Revolutionary Sketches poster
NR

The brothers Aleinikov lay out turgid governmental speeches about "the rearing of a new man" under footage of dudes goofing around in space-alien costumes. They roll footage of apple-cheeked future Stakhanovites upside down and backwards. They crudely animate - in a certain South Parkian way - CCCP (USSR) icons in a goofy manner.

Revolutionary Sketches

1987

M. E. poster
6.2

The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.

M. E.

1986

M. E. poster
6.2

The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.

M. E.

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Typist

1989

Tractors poster
NR

One of the most impressive symbols of a happy Soviet life, peaceful labour and rich harvest. Being mystified to the highest degree, the film acquires traits of a mystical animal, a human being and just a machine.

Tractors

1987

I'm Cold. So What? poster
NR

The piece presents a series of bizarre tableaux, many involving cinematic voyeurism, blurring of the living-dead borderline and a healthy amount of stabbing, of oneself and of others. A catatonic fellow gets costumed as a ghoul; a literal tree-hugger, ecstatic in his arboreal embrace, gets stabbed; a bespectacled fellow with a Bolex-y camera goes around documenting it all.

I'm Cold. So What?

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Post-Political Cinema

1988

Metastasis poster
NR

Found footage and found sound. Badly solarized training films, documentary fragments, speeches of USSR party leaders and rock 'n' roll form a horrifying picture of media pressure.

Metastasis

1984

Good and Bad poster
10.0

The beautiful model from Ryazan Sveta and her fellow kickboxer Stepa in early childhood took an oath to love each other to the grave. But Stepan joined the army, where he soon received news that Sveta had left for Moscow with a rich producer. Now she shines on the catwalks of the capital. Stepa decides to go to Moscow and become a kickboxing champion.

Good and Bad

2000

The Girl and Buda poster
NR

Experimental short.

The Girl and Buda

1984

Mirages poster
NR

A musical film featuring Sergei Letov's band "Tri O".

Mirages

1989

Zenboxing poster
NR

How to defeat a warrior who has not yet been born, if you have already died? Trendy style, paradoxical language, paranormal phenomena, ancient China, black humor, the Internet, love, kickboxing fights - the real magic of ZENBOXING.

Zenboxing

1998