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Before starting his career in cinema, director Alexei Balabanov graduated from a translation department in the closed city of Gorky and spent several years serving in aviation and the navy. Our film explores how and under what influences this young artist chose his cinematic path and why he speaks about the things he does.

For the first time since 1995, interviews with Alexei Balabanov from one of his earliest film festivals are published, along with footage of his collaboration with Alexei German Sr. at Lenfilm.