Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 08, 1900
Died
Feb 19, 1989
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Credits
30 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Self
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Director
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator
The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov
Writer
The Train Rolls On
Himself
Night over China
Writer
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director
Law of Baseness
Director
An Unquiet Spring
Director
First Spring
Director
Slava trudu
Director
Ambulance
Screenplay
Liberated Earth
Director
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director
Blossoming Youth
Director
The New Moscow
Director
The Miracle Worker
Director
Happiness
Director
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
Producer
Gazeta #4
Producer
Conveyor
Producer
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Director
Duren, You're a Fool!
Director
Fruits and Vegetables
Director
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver
Watch Your Health
Director