Aleksandr Medvedkin
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1900-03-08 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- 1989-02-19
Known for
- Happiness (1935) — Director
- The New Moscow (1938) — Director
- The Last Bolshevik (1994) — Self (archive footage)
- The Silence of Pelešjan (2011) — Self (archive footage)
- The Train Rolls On (1971) — Himself
- The Miracle Worker (1936) — Director
- The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon (1933) — Director
- We Await Your Victorious Return (1941) — Director
- Liberated Earth (1946) — Director
- Stop Thief! (1930) — Blundering Tractor Driver
- Ambulance (1949) — Screenplay
- The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969) — Director
- An Unquiet Spring (1956) — Director
- Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984) — Self
- Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979) — Self
- Caution! Maoism! (1976) — Narrator