Aleksandr Medvedkin
Born: 1900-03-08 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: 1989-02-19
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
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
1979
1977
- Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind ... (Director)
1976
- Caution! Maoism! as Narrator
1971
- The Train Rolls On as Himself
- Night over China ... (Writer)
1969
- The Letter to a Chinese Friend ... (Director)
1962
- Law of Baseness ... (Director)
1956
- An Unquiet Spring ... (Director)
1954
- First Spring ... (Director)
1949
- Ambulance ... (Screenplay)
1946
- Liberated Earth ... (Director)
1941
- We Await Your Victorious Return ... (Director)
1939
- Blossoming Youth ... (Director)
1938
- The New Moscow ... (Director)
1936
- The Miracle Worker ... (Director)
1935
- Happiness ... (Director)
1933
- The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon ... (Director)
1932
- Gazeta #4 ... (Producer)
- Conveyor ... (Producer)
- Kinopoezd - Cinetrain ... (Director)
- How's Life, Comrade Miner? ... (Producer)
1930
- Stop Thief! as Blundering Tractor Driver
1929
- Watch Your Health ... (Director)