Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
Born March 8, 1900 · 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.
Directed (19)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
1977
Caution! Maoism!
1976
Night over China
1971
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
1969
Law of Baseness
1962
An Unquiet Spring
1956
First Spring
1954
Liberated Earth
1946
We Await Your Victorious Return
1941
Blossoming Youth
1939
The New Moscow
1938
The Miracle Worker
1936
Happiness
1935
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
1933
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
1932
Stop Thief!
1930
Watch Your Health
1929
