Aleksandr Medvedkin
Personal Info
Known For Director
Gender Male
Birthday 1900-03-08
Deathday 1989-02-19 (88 years old)
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 (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989) 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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