The series of films “Brother”, the films “Cargo 200”, “War”, “Blind Man’s Bluff”, “Happy Days”, “About Freaks and People”, “Stoker”, “It Doesn’t Hurt Me”... Alexey Balabanov can rightfully be called a cult domestic director. Danila Bagrov, who has become a new hero of our time for the Russian audience, striving to find the truth in the alleys of post-Soviet St. Petersburg, is now known abroad, and the images of hopelessness and horror in the province that unfolded in “Cargo 200” are still remembered with a shudder. They pierced the viewer’s emotions. Balaban's films received prestigious film awards, but were and are condemned for their directness, ambiguity, and sometimes even real blackness. The question arises: how objective can Balabanov’s view of the post-Soviet era and events be considered, which even decades later are looked back on not without fear? Gennady Starostenko is a publicist, writer, member of the Writers’ Union of Russia, who knew Alexei Balabanov from his student years, in his book “Alexey Balabanov. Stand up for your brother... Betray your brother..." finds the answer to this question. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.