Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing • Born 1900-03-08 – Died 1989-02-19
Directing0Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography
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.
Filmography
7 credits
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Movie • 1984
Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Movie • 1979
Self
The Last Bolshevik
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Stop Thief!
Movie • 1930
Blundering Tractor Driver
The Train Rolls On
Movie • 1971
Himself
The Silence of Pelešjan
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Caution! Maoism!
Movie • 1976
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