Aleksandr Medvedkin

Known for

Directing

Born

Mar 8, 1900

Died

Feb 19, 1989

From

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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The Last Bolshevik

19947.6out of 10

The Silence of Pelešjan

20115.8out of 10

The Train Rolls On

19716.6out of 10

Stop Thief!

193010.0out of 10

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

19840.0out of 10

Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder

19790.0out of 10

Caution! Maoism!

19760.0out of 10

Ambulance

19497.0out of 10

Happiness

19355.7out of 10

Night over China

19710.0out of 10

Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind

19770.0out of 10

The New Moscow

19385.8out of 10

The Miracle Worker

19366.8out of 10

Watch Your Health

19290.0out of 10

The Letter to a Chinese Friend

19696.5out of 10

The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon

19337.1out of 10

Law of Baseness

19620.0out of 10

Liberated Earth

19468.5out of 10