Aleksandr Medvedkin
Director
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.
As Director
The New Moscow
1938
The Miracle Worker
1936
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
1933
We Await Your Victorious Return
1941
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
1969
Liberated Earth
1946
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
1977
Watch Your Health
1929
Law of Baseness
1962
Blossoming Youth
1939
Stop Thief!
1930Filmography
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage) 1994
The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage) 2011
The Train Rolls On
as Himself 1971
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self 1984
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self 1979
Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver 1930