Aleksandr Medvedkin
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1900-03-08 (89 years old)
Deathday
1989-02-19
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also known As
Александр Медведкин
Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine
Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin
Aleksandr 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.
Acting
1984
1979
1993
as Self (archive footage)
1930
as Blundering Tractor Driver
1973
as Himself
2011
as Self (archive footage)
1976
as Narrator
Production
1949
as Screenplay
1934
as Director
1971
as Writer
1977
as Director
1938
as Director
1936
as Director
1936
as Writer
1929
as Director
1934
as Writer
1969
as Director
1969
as Writer
1933
1962
as Director
1946
as Director
1939
as Director
1932
as Producer
1932
as Producer
1930
as Director
1941
as Director
1971
as Director
1956
as Director
1954
as Director
1932
as Director
1976
as Director
1938
as Screenplay
1984
as Director
1984
as Writer
1979
1979
as Director
1956
as Writer
1932
as Producer
1962
as Writer
1976
as Writer
1941
as Writer
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