Anatoly Balchev
# Anatoly Balchev

Anatoly Balchev (Ukrainian Анатолий Маркович Бальчев, born 28 July 1946) 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 (Vysotsky, Unknown Pages), 2017
* Пассажир из Сан-Франциско (Passenger from San Francisco), 2014
* Vladimir Vysotsky's 80th Birthday

## Songs (selection)

* Пасхальная (Easter)
* Хризантемы (chrysanthemums)
* У зим бывают имена (winter have names)
* Ялта (Yalta)
