Anatoly Balchev


Anatoly Balchev is a Russian composer, actor, screenwriter and director.

Life and work

Balchev initially worked as a composer, creating pieces for the cinema and theater, as well as songs for Russian pop stars and releasing albums with his own songs. In the self-written piece The Poets' Café he debuted in 1990 as a director.
In the 1990s he was co-producer of the Russian-American project Cops in Russia, the Russian version of the television show COPS by Fox Television. In 1998 he founded the Apollo Film Studio. His intensive study of film-making practiced in Hollywood enabled him to direct the Russian-American movie Passenger from San Francisco. He has written several screenplays waiting to be filmed.

Filmography (selection)

  • Высоцкий. Неизвестные страницы, 2017
  • Пассажир из Сан-Франциско, 2014
  • Vladimir Vysotsky's 80th Birthday

    Songs (selection)

  • Пасхальная
  • Хризантемы
  • У зим бывают имена
  • Ялта