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.
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Movies (30)
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011 · Self (archive footage)
The Last Bolshevik
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984 · Self, Director, Writer
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979 · Self, Director, Writer
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
1977 · Director
Caution! Maoism!
1976 · Narrator, Director, Writer
The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov
1972 · Writer
The Train Rolls On
1971 · Himself
Night over China
1971 · Writer, Director
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
1969 · Director, Writer
Law of Baseness
1962 · Director, Writer
An Unquiet Spring
1956 · Director, Writer
First Spring
1954 · Director
Slava trudu
1951 · Director
Ambulance
1949 · Screenplay
Liberated Earth
1946 · Director
We Await Your Victorious Return
1941 · Director, Writer
Blossoming Youth
1939 · Director
The New Moscow
1938 · Director, Screenplay
The Miracle Worker
1936 · Director, Writer
Happiness
1935 · Director, Writer
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
1933 · Director
Gazeta #4
1932 · Producer
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
1932 · Producer
Conveyor
1932 · Producer
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
1932 · Director
Duren, You're a Fool!
1931 · Director, Writer
Fruits and Vegetables
1931 · Director
Stop Thief!
1930 · Blundering Tractor Driver, Director
Watch Your Health
1929 · Director
TV shows (0)
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