Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
1900-03-08 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011 · Movie
The Last Bolshevik
1994 · Movie
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984 · Movie
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979 · Movie
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
1977 · Movie
Caution! Maoism!
1976 · Movie
The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov
1972 · Movie
The Train Rolls On
1971 · Movie
Night over China
1971 · Movie
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
1969 · Movie
Law of Baseness
1962 · Movie
An Unquiet Spring
1956 · Movie
First Spring
1954 · Movie
Slava trudu
1951 · Movie
Ambulance
1949 · Movie
Liberated Earth
1946 · Movie
We Await Your Victorious Return
1941 · Movie
Blossoming Youth
1939 · Movie
The New Moscow
1938 · Movie
The Miracle Worker
1936 · Movie
Happiness
1935 · Movie
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
1933 · Movie
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
1932 · Movie
Gazeta #4
1932 · Movie
Conveyor
1932 · Movie
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
1932 · Movie
Duren, You're a Fool!
1931 · Movie
Fruits and Vegetables
1931 · Movie
Stop Thief!
1930 · Movie
Watch Your Health
1929 · Movie