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.
Filmography
all 26
Movies 26
Director 17
self 5
Producer 3
Screenplay 1
Self (archive footage)

The Silence of Pelešjan (2011)
Movie
Self (archive footage)

The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Movie
Self / Director / Writer

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)
Movie
Self / Writer / Director

Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
Movie
Narrator / Director / Writer

Caution! Maoism! (1976)
Movie
Writer / Director

Night over China (1971)
Movie
Director / Writer

The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969)
Movie
Director / Writer

Law of Baseness (1962)
Movie
Director / Writer

An Unquiet Spring (1956)
Movie
Director

First Spring (1954)
Movie
Screenplay

Ambulance (1949)
Movie
Director

Liberated Earth (1946)
Movie
Director / Script

We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)
Movie
Director

Blossoming Youth (1939)
Movie
Director / Screenplay

The New Moscow (1938)
Movie
Director / Writer

The Miracle Worker (1936)
Movie
Director / Writer

Happiness (1934)
Movie
4
Producer

Conveyor (1932)
Movie
Producer

Gazeta #4 (1932)
Movie
Blundering Tractor Driver / Director

Stop Thief! (1930)
Movie
Director

Watch Your Health (1929)
Movie
Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1900-03-08
Deathday1989-02-19 (88 years old)
Birth PlacePenza, Russia
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsАлександр Медведкин, Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine , Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin
AwardsOrder of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg", Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of the Red Banner, USSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Medal "Veteran of Labour", People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Patriotic War, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the RSFSR
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