Gleb Aleynikov

Place of Birth

Grozny, USSR

Biography

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).