Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1900-03-08
Day of Death
1989-02-19
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Aleksandr Medvedkin
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.
Filmography (7)
⭐ 5.8
Role:
Self (archive footage)
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011
⭐ 7.6
Role:
Self (archive footage)
The Last Bolshevik
1994
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984No Image
⭐ 0
Role:
Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
⭐ 0
Role:
Narrator
Caution! Maoism!
1976
⭐ 6.3
Role:
Himself
The Train Rolls On
1971No Image
⭐ 10.0
Role:
Blundering Tractor Driver