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.

Known For

The Last Bolshevik

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man

The Silence of Pelešjan

The Train Rolls On

Caution! Maoism!

All Movies (7)

• The Silence of Pelešjan2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Last Bolshevik1994 · as Self (archive footage)
• Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man1984 · as Self
• Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder1979 · as Self
• Caution! Maoism!1976 · as Narrator
• The Train Rolls On1971 · as Himself
• Stop Thief!1930 · as Blundering Tractor Driver