Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
March 8, 1900
Died February 19, 1989 (88 years old)
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
7
Acting Credits
22
Directed
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011
as Self (archive footage)
5.8
The Last Bolshevik
1994
as Self (archive footage)
7.6
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
as Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
as Self
Caution! Maoism!
1976
as Narrator
The Train Rolls On
1971
as Himself
6.6
Stop Thief!
1930
as Blundering Tractor Driver
10