Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
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
Directing22
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
Director
movieCaution! Maoism!
1976
Director
movieNight over China
1971
Director
movieAn Unquiet Spring
1956
Director
Slava trudu
1951
Director
movieLiberated Earth
1946
Director
movieThe New Moscow
1938
Director
movieThe Miracle Worker
1936
Director
movieHappiness
1935
Director
movieKinopoezd - Cinetrain
1932
Director
movieDuren, You're a Fool!
1931
Director
movieFruits and Vegetables
1931
Director
Stop Thief!
1930
Director
Writing13
Acting7
movieThe Silence of Pelešjan
2011
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Last Bolshevik
1994
Self (archive footage)
movieCaution! Maoism!
1976
Narrator
movieThe Train Rolls On
1971
Himself
Stop Thief!
1930
Blundering Tractor Driver
