Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
- Born
- March 8, 1900 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- February 19, 1989 (age 88)
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
Happiness
March 15, 1935
The New Moscow
April 1, 1938
The Miracle Worker
April 1, 1936
We Await Your Victorious Return
January 1, 1941
Liberated Earth
February 2, 1946
Ambulance
March 23, 1949
An Unquiet Spring
August 25, 1956
Night over China
January 1, 1971
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
January 18, 1932
Caution! Maoism!
January 1, 1976
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
January 1, 1984
Conveyor
December 31, 1932
Behind the camera27
- 1984Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man Writer, Director
- 1979Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder Director, Writer
- 1977Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind Director
- 1976Caution! Maoism! Director, Writer
- 1972The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov Writer
- 1971Night over China Writer, Director
- 1969The Letter to a Chinese Friend Director, Writer
- 1962Law of Baseness Director, Writer
- 1956An Unquiet Spring Director, Writer
- 1954