Directing
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing · Born 1900-03-08 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
Credits · 13
FilmThe Silence of Pelešjan
2011 · Self (archive footage)
FilmThe Last Bolshevik
1994 · Self (archive footage)
FilmThe Train Rolls On
1971 · Himself
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
FilmThe Letter to a Chinese Friend
1969 · Director
FilmAn Unquiet Spring
1956 · Director
FilmAmbulance
1949 · Screenplay
FilmLiberated Earth
1946 · Director
FilmWe Await Your Victorious Return
1941 · Director
FilmThe New Moscow
1938 · Director
FilmThe Miracle Worker
1936 · Director
FilmHappiness
1935 · Director
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
FilmThe Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
1933 · Director
Stop Thief!
FilmStop Thief!
1930 · Blundering Tractor Driver