Directing · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia] · Born March 8, 1900
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.
MovieThe Silence of Pelešjan
2011
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Last Bolshevik
1994
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAnxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
as Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
as Self
MovieCaution! Maoism!
1976
as Narrator
MovieThe Train Rolls On
1971
as Himself
Stop Thief!
1930
as Blundering Tractor Driver
