Aleksandr Medvedkin
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.
7
Acting Credits
25
Crew Credits
Acting
Movie
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Movie
The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Movie
The Train Rolls On
as Himself
1971
Movie
Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver
1930
Movie
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self
1984
Movie
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self
1979
Movie
Caution! Maoism!
as Narrator
1976
Crew
Movie
Happiness
Director
1935
Movie
The New Moscow
Director
1938
Movie
The Miracle Worker
Director
1936
Movie
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director
1933
Movie
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director
1941
Movie
Liberated Earth
Director
1946
Movie
Ambulance
Screenplay
1949
Movie
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director
1969
Movie
Stop Thief!
Director
1930
Movie
An Unquiet Spring
Director
1956
Movie
Night over China
Writer
1971
Movie
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Director
1977