Aleksandr Medvedkin
Born
March 8, 1900
Died
February 19, 1989 (88 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
5.8
2011
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
7.3
1993
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self
0.0
1984
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Self
0.0
1979
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator
0.0
1976
The Train Rolls On
Himself
6.3
1973
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver
0.0
1930