Aleksandr Medvedkin
Birthday: 1900-03-08
Deathday: 1989-02-19
Birthplace: Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Gender: Male
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989) 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
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1984-01-01 | Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man |
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1979-01-01 | Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder |
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1977-01-01 | Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind |
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1976-01-01 | Caution! Maoism! |
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1971-01-01 | Night over China |
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1969-01-01 | The Letter to a Chinese Friend |
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1962-01-01 | Zakon podlosti |
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1956-08-25 | An Unquiet Spring |
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1954-01-01 | First Spring |
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1946-02-02 | Liberated Earth |
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1941-01-01 | We Await Your Victorious Return |
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1939-01-01 | Blossoming Youth |
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1938-04-01 | The New Moscow |
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1936-04-01 | The Miracle Worker |
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1934-10-01 | Happiness |
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1933-01-30 | The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon |
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1932-01-18 | Kinopoezd - Cinetrain |
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1930-12-31 | Stop Thief! |
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1929-01-01 | Watch Your Health |