title: Anatoly Balchev
text: # 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)
  