Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
Born March 8, 1900 in 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.
Filmography
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator
The Train Rolls On
Himself
Night over China
An Unquiet Spring
Ambulance
Liberated Earth
We Await Your Victorious Return
The New Moscow
The Miracle Worker
Happiness
Conveyor
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Duren, You're a Fool!
Fruits and Vegetables