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.

Known For

Director

1976
Caution! Maoism!

as Director

1971
Night over China

as Director

1962
Zakon podlosti

as Director

1956
An Unquiet Spring

as Director

1954
First Spring

as Director

1946
Liberated Earth

as Director

1939
Blossoming Youth

as Director

1938
The New Moscow

as Director

1936
The Miracle Worker

as Director

1934
Happiness

as Director

1932
1930
Stop Thief!

as Director

1929
Watch Your Health

as Director

Writer

1971
1956
1949
Ambulance

as Screenplay

1938
The New Moscow

as Screenplay

1936
1934
Happiness

as Writer

Actor

2011
The Silence of Pelešjan

as Self (archive footage)

1993
The Last Bolshevik

as Self (archive footage)

1973
1930
Stop Thief!

as Blundering Tractor Driver

Producer

1932
Gazeta #4

as Producer