Aleksandr Medvedkin
Known for: Directing
Born: March 7, 1900 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia] - Died: February 18, 1989
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin was a Soviet Russian film director, best known for his 1935 film Happiness. His life and art are the subject of Chris Marker's documentary films, The Train Rolls On (1971) and The Last Bolshevik (1992). He travelled around Russia in his Kinopoezd, a film-train, in which he carried film equipment and shot movies in Kolkhozy, which he would then screen there.
Known for
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Self
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver
The Train Rolls On
Himself
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator
Ambulance
Screenplay
Happiness
Director
Night over China
Writer
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Director
The New Moscow
Director
The Miracle Worker
Director
Watch Your Health
Director
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director
Law of Baseness
Director
Liberated Earth
Director
Blossoming Youth
Director
Gazeta #4
Producer
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
Producer
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director
An Unquiet Spring
Director
First Spring
Director