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Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Birthday: 1900-03-08 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2011
The Silence of Pelešjan

as    Self (archive footage)

1994
The Last Bolshevik

as    Self (archive footage)

1984
1976
Caution! Maoism!

as    Narrator

1971
The Train Rolls On

as    Himself

1930
Stop Thief!

as    Blundering Tractor Driver