Alexey Balabanov, the Russian director best known for foisting 1997’s blunt, bracing, Yeltsin-era-defining thriller “Brother” upon the unsuspecting world, is back with a film jerry-rigged to reclaim ...

A savagely unpleasant journey into the darkest corners of human depravity, this absorbingly unpredictable and original film emerges as the blackest of black comedies. By The Associated Press Crossing ...

LONDON -- Alexei Balabanov's "Cargo 200" -- an uncompromising story of rape, murder, abduction and psychological abuse -- opened in theaters across the country Thursday to a chorus of criticism from ...

lexey Balabanov, the Russian director best known for foisting 1997’s blunt, bracing, Yeltsin-era-defining thriller Brother upon the unsuspecting world, is back with a film jerry-rigged to reclaim ...

A sadistic, impotent police captain who enjoys abusing his power crosses paths with a communist, atheist university professor with a crisis of faith in "Cargo 200." Disturbing, gleefully black comedy ...

Alexey Balabanov's eleventh feature is one of his bleakest. Set in provincial Russia in 1984 as the USSR enters its death throes, it portrays a society that is sickly, violent and cynical. The title ...