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Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

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.

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Known For

  • Happiness
  • Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
  • The New Moscow
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Watch Your Health
  • The Letter to a Chinese Friend
  • The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
  • Law of Baseness
  • Liberated Earth
  • Blossoming Youth
  • Stop Thief!
  • We Await Your Victorious Return
  • Night over China
  • An Unquiet Spring
  • First Spring
  • Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
  • Caution! Maoism!
  • Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
  • Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder