Aleksandr Medvedkin
Birthday: 1900-03-08
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.
Movies
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration....
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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race....
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The Last Bolshevik
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscov...
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Stop Thief!
Lazy or incompetent peasants try to malinger and wriggle their way out of duties at the Kolkhoz....
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The Train Rolls On
This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobi...
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The Silence of Pelešjan
A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan....
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Caution! Maoism!
A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, the...
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