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Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

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.

Known for

The Silence of Pelešjan
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011 • Self (archive footage)
The Last Bolshevik
The Last Bolshevik
1994 • Self (archive footage)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984 • Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979 • Self
Caution! Maoism!
Caution! Maoism!
1976 • Narrator
The Train Rolls On
The Train Rolls On
1971 • Himself
Stop Thief!
1930 • Blundering Tractor Driver

Full filmography

The Silence of Pelešjan
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011 • Self (archive footage)
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The Last Bolshevik
The Last Bolshevik
1994 • Self (archive footage)
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Stop Thief!
1930 • Blundering Tractor Driver
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