Aleksandr Medvedkin
Mar 08, 1900 - Feb 19, 1989 (88 years old) in 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 Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
The Train Rolls On
Himself
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver
Credits
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Self (archive footage)★ 5.8 -
The Last Bolshevik 1993Self (archive footage)★ 7.3 -
Self★ NR -
Self★ NR
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Caution! Maoism! 1976Narrator★ NR -
The Train Rolls On 1973Himself★ 6.3 -
Stop Thief! 1930Blundering Tractor Driver★ NR