Aleksandr Medvedkin
DirectingMarch 8, 1900— February 19, 1989 (age 88)
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
Александр Медведкин, Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine , Aleksandr Ivanovitch 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.
Movies
(7 total)
The Last Bolshevik
19947.3
as Self (archive footage)
The Silence of Pelešjan
20115.8
as Self (archive footage)
The Train Rolls On
19716.3
as Himself
Caution! Maoism!
1976
as Narrator