Aleksandr Medvedkin
Known for: Directing
Born: March 8, 1900
Died: February 19, 1989
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
30 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
5.8
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011
7.6
The Last Bolshevik
1994
NR
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984NR
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979NR
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
1977
NR
Caution! Maoism!
1976NR
The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov
1972
6.6
The Train Rolls On
1971
NR
Night over China
19716.5
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
1969NR
Law of Baseness
1962
10.0
An Unquiet Spring
1956NR
First Spring
1954NR
Slava trudu
1951
7.0
Ambulance
1949
8.5
Liberated Earth
1946
6.8
We Await Your Victorious Return
1941NR
Blossoming Youth
1939
5.8
The New Moscow
1938
6.8
The Miracle Worker
1936
5.7
Happiness
19357.1
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
1933NR
Gazeta #4
1932NR
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
1932
NR
Conveyor
1932
NR
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
1932
NR
Duren, You're a Fool!
1931
NR
Fruits and Vegetables
193110.0
Stop Thief!
1930NR
Watch Your Health
1929