Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

  • Birthday: 1900-03-08
  • Deathday: 1989-02-19
  • Place of birth: Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
  • Also know as: Александр Медведкин

Biography

Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989) 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

The Last Bolshevik

1993

As Self (archive footage)

Stop Thief!

1930

As Blundering Tractor Driver

The Train Rolls On

1973

As Himself

Production

Happiness

1934

As Director

The New Moscow

1938

As Director

The Miracle Worker

1936

As Director

Watch Your Health

1929

As Director

Happiness

1934

As Writer

Stop Thief!

1930

As Director

Blossoming Youth

1939

As Director

Liberated Earth

1946

As Director

Gazeta #4

1932

As Producer

Night over China

1971

As Director

An Unquiet Spring

1956

As Director

First Spring

1954

As Director

Kinopoezd - Cinetrain

1932

As Director

Ambulance

1949

As Screenplay

The Miracle Worker

1936

As Writer

Caution! Maoism!

1976

As Director

An Unquiet Spring

1956

As Writer

Night over China

1971

As Writer

Zakon podlosti

1962

As Director

The New Moscow

1938

As Screenplay

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