Cast
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
Cast
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Known for
Directing
Born
1900-03-08
From
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
1989-02-19
Also known as Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine , Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin, A. Medvedkin
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.
★5.8
MOVIE2011
The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1971
The Train Rolls On
as Himself
★10.0
MOVIE1930
Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver
★7.6
MOVIE1994
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1984
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self
MOVIE1976
Caution! Maoism!
as Narrator
MOVIE1979
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self