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
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self
1976
Caution! Maoism!
as Narrator
1971
The Train Rolls On
as Himself
1930
Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver
