Aleksandr Medvedkin

Instruktør, Forfatter

8. marts 1900 — 19. februar 1989 (88 år)
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.

Kendt for

  • Happiness
    Happiness1935

Filmografi

1938
The New Moscow · as Screenplay
1937
1935

2011
The Silence of Pelesjan · as Self (archive Footage)
1993
The Last Bolshevik · as Self (archive Footage)
1971
The Train Rolls On · as Himself