Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
1900-03-08 · 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(7)
movieThe Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage) · 2011 · 5.8
movieThe Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage) · 1994 · 7.6
movieAnxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self · 1984 · 0.0
movieMadness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self · 1979 · 0.0
movieCaution! Maoism!
as Narrator · 1976 · 0.0
movieThe Train Rolls On
as Himself · 1971 · 6.3
movieStop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver · 1930 · 10.0