Aleksandr Medvedkin
Known for Directing
Details
Birthday: March 08, 1900
Deathday: February 19, 1989
Place of birth: Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography
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.
Actor
1994
1976
1971
1930
Director
1976
1971
1962
1956
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1929
Writer
1976
1971
1962
1956
1936
1935