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.

Directed

1. Happiness (1935) — Director
2. The New Moscow (1938) — Director
3. The Miracle Worker (1936) — Director
4. The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon (1933) — Director
5. We Await Your Victorious Return (1941) — Director
6. Liberated Earth (1946) — Director
7. The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969) — Director
8. Stop Thief! (1930) — Director
9. An Unquiet Spring (1956) — Director
10. Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind (1977) — Director
11. Watch Your Health (1929) — Director
12. Law of Baseness (1962) — Director
13. Blossoming Youth (1939) — Director
14. Night over China (1971) — Director
15. First Spring (1954) — Director
16. Kinopoezd - Cinetrain (1932) — Director
17. Caution! Maoism! (1976) — Director
18. Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984) — Director
19. Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979) — Director
20. Duren, You're a Fool! (1931) — Director
21. Fruits and Vegetables (1931) — Director
22. Slava trudu (1951) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Last Bolshevik (1994) — Self (archive footage)
2. The Silence of Pelešjan (2011) — Self (archive footage)
3. The Train Rolls On (1971) — Himself
4. Stop Thief! (1930) — Blundering Tractor Driver
5. Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984) — Self
6. Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979) — Self
7. Caution! Maoism! (1976) — Narrator