Aleksandr Medvedkin
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.
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Movies (26)
The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage)
2011
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self
1984
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self
1979
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Director (Directing)
1977
Caution! Maoism!
as Narrator
1976
The Train Rolls On
as Himself
1971
Night over China
Writer (Writing)
1971
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director (Directing)
1969
Law of Baseness
Director (Directing)
1962
An Unquiet Spring
Director (Directing)
1956
First Spring
Director (Directing)
1954
Ambulance
Screenplay (Writing)
1949
Liberated Earth
Director (Directing)
1946
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director (Directing)
1941
Blossoming Youth
Director (Directing)
1939
The New Moscow
Director (Directing)
1938
The Miracle Worker
Director (Directing)
1936
Happiness
Director (Directing)
1935
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director (Directing)
1933
Gazeta #4
Producer (Production)
1932
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
Producer (Production)
1932
Conveyor
Producer (Production)
1932
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Director (Directing)
1932
Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver
1930
Watch Your Health
Director (Directing)
1929