Valeriy Balayan

Directing

Valeriy Balayan

Born 1960-08-30 · Sumy, Sumy region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Fourth Dream of Anna Andreevna poster
5.0

The film is about an amazing woman, rural paramedic Anna Avzayeva, who was born on the day of the formation of the USSR. She went through the front and the Stalinist camps, where she dreamed of a model of heaven on earth in the spirit of N.G. Chernyshevsky's utopias, about which she wrote to the newspaper. Like the heroine of her idol N.G. Chernyshevsky, Vera Pavlovna from the novel "What to Do?", Anna Andreevna has dreams in which she meets V.I. Lenin.

The Fourth Dream of Anna Andreevna

1988

Angleterre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Angleterre

1989

Rainbow over the Karakum poster
NR

During World War II the Kyiv Film Studio relocates to Ashgabat, which will provide a safe haven for many Soviet filmmakers. This is where, thousands of miles from the front line, one of the most famous war films in the history of cinema will be made.

Rainbow over the Karakum

2016

Enjoy poster
NR

The film is about street art in the Crimea and about artists who choose radically different paths.

Enjoy

2016

The Hyphen poster
NR

The subjective-personal context is perceived as an objective document of the era, a true testimony of the time when it was created and experienced. The author reflects on events of different historical scale, but equally significant for a person. The film is built on the principle of montage of free associations: from memories of the grandmother and reflections on "the time of our grandmothers" to the image of Vira Kholodnaya as the embodiment of femininity, and then - at a sharp turn - to the problems of inter-ethnic conflicts.

The Hyphen

1992

About air flying in Russia poster
7.0

The provincial Russian town of Nerekhta is celebrating its 775th anniversary. The basis of the holiday is the legend about the local craftsman Krikutny, who was the first in the world in 1731 to fly in a balloon. Was there really the balloonist Krikutny, or was this story invented by the provincial official Sulukadzev? Whom to believe? To the text of the charter for the first ballooning or to historians who refute the reality of this event?

About air flying in Russia

1989

No artwork available
NR

The film is based on a conversation between two philosophers and a historian, Merab Mamardashvili, Dmitry Seseman and Yuri Geller, which took place 25 years ago in 1986. So much has changed in the world since then, and the thoughts of the film's characters about freedom and slavery, about totalitarianism and democracy remain relevant today.

Nostalgia for Window Glass

2011

Who Is Mister Putin poster
7.7

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

Who Is Mister Putin

2015

Who Is Mister Putin poster
7.7

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

Who Is Mister Putin

2015

Who Is Mister Putin poster
7.7

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

Who Is Mister Putin

2015

No artwork available
NR

About the construction of the Rybinsk Reservoir.

Wide Is the Sea

1987

In Search of A Portrait poster
6.0

The film is based on three events in February 1987: the release of the film "Repentance", an exhibition-competition in the Manege of projects for the Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Gora and the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin.

In Search of A Portrait

1987

Alexander Askoldov. The Fate of the Commissar poster
NR

A story about Soviet director Alexander Askoldov and his first and only feature film, The Commissar.

Alexander Askoldov. The Fate of the Commissar

2006

Love Me, Please poster
NR

The film tells about the life of journalist Anastasia Baburova, who was killed on January 19, 2009 in Moscow together with famous lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

Love Me, Please

2010