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 Last Bolshevik
Happiness
The Silence of Pelešjan
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
The Train Rolls On
An Unquiet Spring
Ambulance
Liberated Earth
The New Moscow
Top Movie Credits
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
Happiness
Writer
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
The Train Rolls On
Himself
An Unquiet Spring
Writer
Ambulance
Screenplay
Liberated Earth
Director
The New Moscow
Screenplay