Biography
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989) 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 24
Movies 24
Director 17
self 3
Producer 2
Writer 1
Self
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Movie
Self / Director / Writer
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)
Movie
Self / Director / Writer
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
Movie
Director
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind (1977)
Movie
Director
Caution! Maoism! (1976)
Movie
Actor
The Train Rolls On (1973)
Movie
Director / Writer
Night over China (1971)
Movie
Director / Writer
The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969)
Movie
Director
Zakon podlosti (1962)
Movie
Director
An Unquiet Spring (1956)
Movie
Director
First Spring (1954)
Movie
Writer
Ambulance (1949)
Movie
Director
Liberated Earth (1946)
Movie
Director
We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)
Movie
Director
Blossoming Youth (1939)
Movie
Director
The New Moscow (1938)
Movie
Director
The Miracle Worker (1936)
Movie
Director / Writer
Happiness (1934)
Movie
4
Director
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon (1933)
Movie
Producer
How's Life, Comrade Miner? (1932)
Movie
Producer
Gazeta #4 (1932)
Movie
Director
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain (1932)
Movie
Director
Stop Thief! (1930)
Movie
Director
Watch Your Health (1929)
Movie
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1929
1934
1949
1949
1993
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, USSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Medal "Veteran of Labour", People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner, 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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