Aleksandr Medvedkin

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.

Known For

Self

Тревога. Раздумья старого человека

Self

Безумие. Размышления о себестоимости убийства

Self (archive footage)

Le Tombeau d'Alexandre

Blundering Tractor Driver

Держи вора!

Himself

Le Train en marche

Self (archive footage)

Il silenzio di Pelešjan

Narrator

Осторожно! Маоизм!