Person
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing · 1900–1989 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
The New Moscow
Director
Liberated Earth
Director
The Miracle Worker
Director
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
Happiness
Director
Duren, You're a Fool!
Director
An Unquiet Spring
Director
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver
The Train Rolls On
Himself
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator
Filmography
- 2011The Silence of PelešjanSelf (archive footage)
- 1994The Last BolshevikSelf (archive footage)
- 1984Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old ManSelf
- 1979Madness. Reflections on the Cost of MurderSelf
- 1977Beijing - Anxiety of MankindDirector
- 1976Caution! Maoism!Narrator
- 1971The Train Rolls OnHimself
- 1971Night over ChinaWriter
- 1969The Letter to a Chinese FriendDirector
- 1962Law of BasenessDirector
- 1956An Unquiet SpringDirector
- 1954First SpringDirector
- 1951Slava truduDirector
- 1949AmbulanceScreenplay
- 1946Liberated EarthDirector
- 1941We Await Your Victorious ReturnDirector
- 1939Blossoming YouthDirector
- 1938The New MoscowDirector
- 1936The Miracle WorkerDirector
- 1935HappinessDirector
- 1933The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large SpoonDirector
- 1932Gazeta #4Producer
- 1932How's Life, Comrade Miner?Producer
- 1932ConveyorProducer
- 1932Kinopoezd - CinetrainDirector
- 1931Duren, You're a Fool!Director
- 1931Fruits and VegetablesDirector
- 1930Stop Thief!Blundering Tractor Driver
- 1929Watch Your HealthDirector
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