Aleksandr Medvedkin
Known for DirectingBorn 1900-03-08 — died 1989-02-19Penza, 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 Train Rolls On
1971 · as Himself
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011 · as Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984 · as Self
The Last Bolshevik
1994 · as Self (archive footage)
Caution! Maoism!
1976 · as Narrator
Stop Thief!
1930 · as Blundering Tractor Driver
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979 · as Self