Aleksandr Medvedkin
March 8, 1900 (125 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2011 ·The Silence of Pelešjanas Self (archive footage)
- 1993 ·The Last Bolshevikas Self (archive footage)
- 1984 ·Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Manas Self
- 1979 ·Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murderas Self
- 1976 ·Caution! Maoism!as Narrator
- 1973 ·The Train Rolls Onas Himself
- 1930 ·Stop Thief!as Blundering Tractor Driver