Aleksandr Medvedkin
Born: 1900-03-08
Birthplace: Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
The Train Rolls On
The Last Bolshevik
Happiness
The Miracle Worker
First Spring
An Unquiet Spring
The New Moscow
The Silence of Pelešjan
We Await Your Victorious Return
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Top Movie Credits
The Train Rolls On
Himself
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
Happiness
Writer
The Miracle Worker
Writer
First Spring
Director
An Unquiet Spring
Writer
The New Moscow
Screenplay
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Director