Aleksandr Medvedkin

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.

Movies with Aleksandr Medvedkin

• The Last Bolshevik 1994 · ★ 7.6
• The Silence of Pelešjan 2011 · ★ 5.8
• The Train Rolls On 1971 · ★ 6.6
• Stop Thief! 1930 · ★ 10.0
• Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man 1984
• Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder 1979
• Caution! Maoism! 1976

Movies directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin

• Happiness 1935 · ★ 5.7
• The New Moscow 1938 · ★ 5.8
• The Miracle Worker 1936 · ★ 6.8
• The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon 1933 · ★ 7.1
• We Await Your Victorious Return 1941 · ★ 6.8
• Liberated Earth 1946 · ★ 8.5
• The Letter to a Chinese Friend 1969 · ★ 6.5
• Stop Thief! 1930 · ★ 10.0
• An Unquiet Spring 1956 · ★ 10.0
• Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind 1977
• Watch Your Health 1929
• Law of Baseness 1962
• Blossoming Youth 1939
• Night over China 1971
• First Spring 1954
• Kinopoezd - Cinetrain 1932
• Caution! Maoism! 1976
• Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man 1984
• Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder 1979
• Duren, You're a Fool! 1931
• Fruits and Vegetables 1931
• Slava trudu 1951