Aleksandr Medvedkin
Known for Directing
Born March 7, 1900
Died February 19, 1989
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.
Filmography
The Train Rolls On
1971
as Himself
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Stop Thief!
1930
as Blundering Tractor Driver
The Last Bolshevik
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
as Self
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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
as Self
Caution! Maoism!
1976
as Narrator