Kantemir Balagov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1991-07-28 (34 years old)

Place of Birth

Nalchik, USSR (Russia)

Kantemir Balagov

Biography

Kantemir Arturovich Balagov (Russian: Кантемир Артурович Балагов, Kabardian: Бэлагъы Артурыкъуэ Къантемыр; born 28 July 1991) is a Russian film director of Circassian descent, screenwriter and cinematographer from the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, in the North Caucasian region of the Russian Federation. He has directed the films Closeness (2017) and Beanpole (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kantemir Balagov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2014

Production

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Butterfly Jam

as Director

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Butterfly Jam

as Screenplay

2017

Closeness

as Director

2019

Beanpole

as Director

2014

First I

as Cinematography

2014

First I

as Director

2017

Closeness

as Screenplay

2016

Sofichka

as Screenplay

2014

First I

as Screenplay

2017

Closeness

as Editor

2014

A Tree Without Roots

as Assistant Director

2015

Andryukha

as Director

2014

2014

They abandoned me

as Assistant Director of Photography

2014

Army

as Assistant Director of Photography

2013

The Sky Seemed Too High

as Cinematography

2015

Tower of Silence

as Assistant Director of Photography

2017

The Life Of My Friend

as Assistant Director of Photography

2015

Andryukha

as Director of Photography

2015

Still Young

as Screenplay

2015

Still Young

as Director

2015

Still Young

as Director of Photography

2014

She Is Waiting

as Director of Photography

2015

Adiyukh

as Director of Photography

2019

Beanpole

as Writer

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